50: Companies Are Getting Menopause Completely Wrong

Midlife Rising · Aug 20, 2026 · 38m

The media says menopause is costing companies billions in lost productivity. We dug into the research - and found the story is backwards.

Jen has been researching menopause and leadership, and in this episode we unpack how the media's "business case" framing - positioning menopause as a profit problem - actually sets women up for judgment and failure at work. We get into what the research really shows (spoiler: it's far less conclusive than the headlines suggest), and make the case that the real culprit isn't menopause at all - it's productivity culture that punishes women exactly when…