There is a new study from the Mayo Clinic, here: Impact of Menopause Symptoms on Women in the Workplace.
The NY Times has a nice write-up here (paywall; sorry):
Menopause costs American women an estimated $1.8 billion in lost working time per year, according to a Mayo Clinic study published this week. The paper examined how hot flashes, night sweats, mood swings and the myriad other symptoms associated with this time of life affect women in the workplace. It’s the largest study of its kind to have been done in the United States.
Stigmas at the intersection gender, aging and disability have long kept discussions of menopause out of public discourse (and legal scholarship). Naomi Cahn (UVa), Emily Waldman (Pace) and I are working on changing that. We have a series of three articles that are relevant:
Working Through Menopause, 99 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1531 (2022)
Contextualizing Menopause and the Law, 45 Harv. J. L. & Gender 1 (2022)
Managing and Monitoring the Menopausal Body, 2022 U. Chi. L. Forum 41 (2022).
