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🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:05.2 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Women's Air from BBC Radio 4. |
0:09.8 | In the debate about who becomes our next Prime Minister, |
0:12.6 | one policy area has yet to rear its head, or you may be feeling quite a few haven't, |
0:16.4 | but perhaps today's report by a cross party group of MPs may change that. |
0:21.4 | Menopause and the workplace. |
0:23.6 | MPs on the Women and Equality's Committee are arguing that women going through the menopause |
0:27.9 | should be given greater rights and protection where they work. |
0:31.6 | They want menopause to become a protected characteristic like pregnancy, |
0:36.2 | because they say a lack of support in the UK is pushing women out of work, |
0:40.9 | and they want more from employers and better legal rights. |
0:44.7 | How do you feel about this? |
0:45.7 | You may have gone through the menopause, |
0:47.2 | you may be in it at the moment, in the trenches, |
0:49.4 | if it's affecting you in the way that we'll hear a little bit about in this report. |
0:53.4 | You may be thinking about it in the future. |
0:55.8 | In a moment, I'll be talking to Caroline Knurke's, the chair of the Women and Equality's Committee, |
1:00.1 | but I know from previous discussions that there is a variety of opinion on this, |
1:04.3 | about whether you would feel comfortable talking to those that you work with, |
1:08.5 | about any such symptoms, whether it is the conversation you've ever had with your boss before, |
1:12.8 | or you feel like you would be able to, |
1:14.9 | or is it a push perhaps, that I should say, the report covers other areas as well, |
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