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Especially for women who work in an office or in a kind of public space or professional space

outside the home, I think that women

deal with sexism, obviously, in those spaces and ageism. And I think talking about menopause

feels like just bringing attention to your age in a way that most women I know don't feel

comfortable out of a sense of self-protectiveness.

Welcome to how to. I'm Courtney Martin. Today, we are going to talk about menopause. Now, listen,

if I'd said that 20 years ago or even 10, even five maybe, a lot of you would have been

shocked. But menopause is having a bit of a moment. Articles about it are going viral. New

products to help cope with it are flooding the market. It seems like women are finally talking

about it out loud, in public, even if still a little tentatively.

And men are finally waking up to the ways in which they are affected via partners and friends by this slightly mysterious part of life.

And yet, there is still such a long way to go before we more broadly and accurately understand

what the hell menopause really is and how it should be treated by medical professionals.

Thankfully, we've got two stellar guests today, including a friend of mine who is not

afraid to lay it all out there.

My name is Katie. I'm 43 years old and I am calling in from Oakland, California.

I'm a cisgendered heterosexual woman who has been in a partnership for many years and I have

no children. And I'm biracial, mixed, black,

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