A study of 64 senior women leaders found something worth paying attention to – 87% said menopause didn’t disrupt their work.

However, the difference wasn’t fewer symptoms, but the environment around them.

They had:

• Access to reliable information
• Colleagues they could talk to (without judgement)
• Flexibility in how the work got done

For all the men who are senior leaders out there, these aren’t “women’s issues”, they’re leadership conditions.

If you’re a man in a position of influence, the work is simple:

Make information easy to find.
Make the conversation normal.
Make flexibility standard, not special.

Not sympathy nor heroics. Just removing friction so people can do their jobs.