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The Broad Experience

The Broad Experience 71: Our Bodies, Our Work

The Broad Experience

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0592 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Every month for much of their lives, women go through something at work that men do not. In this show we delve into the intersection of menstruation and work. The workplace is becoming ever more female, yet women are largely still fitting into a structure designed by men, for men - and that means dealing with both periods and menopause in whispers.

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0:00.0

Hey Kitty, time to eat your profits. Good kitty, look how fat you've gotten. That's the sound of some

0:07.8

workplace pension providers paying their shareholders instead of you. At people's pension,

0:12.8

we don't have shareholders to pamper. That's why over the last five years, we've given

0:17.4

£100 million back to our members instead.

0:26.0

Oh, you've broken the cat flap again. People's Pension. Now that's a pension with purpose.

0:29.7

Visit people'spension.com.uk forward slash pays you.

0:39.6

Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.

0:41.2

I'm Ashley Miltight.

0:45.2

This time, menstruation at work.

0:48.8

How do you talk about it if you talk about it?

0:51.5

And I said, you know, I've got this thing called endometriosis.

0:52.8

This is what it is.

0:55.5

I'm going to probably have major surgery.

0:57.9

And he was like, huh, okay.

1:02.6

And he didn't seem phased by the fact that it was about periods, to his credit.

1:05.5

But not all men are comfortable with the topic.

1:13.3

It was like a 10-member, all-white, middle-aged male group of angel investors. I'm the only girl in the room.

1:20.3

I was 22 at the time. And, you know, selling them on why period underwear is a good investment.

1:24.0

And why women tend to go through menopause quietly.

1:30.1

If we are acknowledging menopause, we're acknowledging that aging happens and that,

1:37.6

you know, there's life after fertility and that's still scary to us somehow. Coming up,

1:43.3

our bodies are work. We can't divorce the two, even if our workplace wishes otherwise.

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