Hey Wave listeners, it's Shaina Roth, your senior producer here at Slate.

We are actually going to be taking this week off to get a little bit of

rest and relaxation, but we're not going to leave you hanging. We have an incredible episode from one of the other slate

podcast How-To. This one is How to Get Through Menopause. The New York Times is Susan Dominus is going to be talking about all of the

information surrounding this very surprisingly still taboo subject. Susan is going to be talking with how to host Courtney Martin

about all things menopause and how to survive menopause and make it easier.

They're going to be digging into mood swings, hot flashes, vaginal dryness, the list goes on.

It's a really important episode whether you're currently going through menopause or going to go through menopause

or even if you just want to learn more about this subject because it is

affecting so many people. So without further ado here is that episode of how to and we will be back in your feeds with a regular episode of the

waves next week.

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-Toe, I'm Courtney Martin.

Today we are going to talk about menopause. Now listen if I had said that 20 years ago or even 10, even 5 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

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