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🗓️ 14 June 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:05.3 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:10.8 | Good morning and welcome to the programme. |
0:12.8 | You may have seen some of the photos of a group of well-known women standing together |
0:16.9 | in Westminster yesterday, they're in most of the newspapers today. |
0:20.7 | They had headed to the House of Commons to mark the signing of the Menopause Mandate, |
0:25.0 | a pledge by the Commons to become a Menopause-friendly workplace |
0:28.6 | with the hope that many will follow suit if they haven't already. |
0:31.9 | I will be talking to one of those women, Mariela Frostrup, shortly, |
0:35.5 | about what that means and what that mandate means. |
0:38.8 | But I wanted to ask you first what it should mean regarding where you work, |
0:42.9 | if it should mean anything at all, |
0:44.8 | because taking an even further step back, |
0:47.1 | would you tell your colleagues and boss that your menopausal and experiencing some symptoms, |
0:52.9 | what would make you feel that that degree of honesty was worth the leap? |
0:57.5 | Because of course showing any form of perceived weakness or ill health at work |
1:01.8 | is still risky and often not viewed as desirable by either the person receiving the information |
1:07.2 | or the person giving it. |
1:08.7 | So how can such schemes cut through? Do tell me. |
1:12.4 | Of course, you may not be at that stage, you might be beyond it, |
1:15.5 | you might be right in the thick of it. |
1:17.3 | But what's your take on this with regard to and regarding where you work? |
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