Working with menopause


The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has launched a guide for midwives and maternity staff working with the menopause as part of a new series of equality and diversity publications. The union says that 99% of midwives are women and over a third of its members are between the ages of 45 and 55, a stage in a woman’s life where menopause can happen.


Working with the menopause includes information on the symptoms of the menopause; the age profile of midwives; the effects of the menopause on work, particularly in a maternity unit; what employers can do to help and what RCM workplace representatives can do.


RCM employment relations advisor Amy Leversidge said that it would be very valuable to RCM workplace representatives as “it’s vital that they discuss the issue of menopause in the workplace with heads of midwifery to make sure conditions in the workplace aren’t making symptoms worse”.


https://www.rcm.org.uk/sites/default/files/Equality%20and%20Diversity%20Publication%20-%20Working%20with%20the%20Menopause%2020pp%20A5_7.pdf