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Why menopause matters in the academic workplace

Employers in some countries are stepping up efforts to support staff through this life stage. Others need to follow suit.
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“No one ever talks to you about menopause,” says Carlotta Berry, an electrical and computer engineer at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana. But a few years ago, it hit Berry “like a steam truck”. She got brain fog, she grew irritable and cranky, and her hair fell out, twice. What she came to call her ‘private summers’ — the dreaded hot flushes — would arrive at inconvenient times, such as during lectures.

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Nature 605, 381-384 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01258-1

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