One in 10 girls who’ve labored whereas going by menopause have left a job due to their signs, a brand new survey has discovered.
The survey, believed to be the most important performed on menopausal girls within the UK, discovered that 14 per cent of girls had decreased their hours at work, 14 per cent had gone part-time and eight per cent had not utilized for promotion.
TV presenter Davina McCall is about to current the findings from the survey of greater than 4,000 girls in her new Channel 4 documentary, Davina McCall: Intercourse, Thoughts and The Menopause.
The analysis additionally options in a report by the Fawcett Society referred to as Menopause And The Office.
The gender equality charity’s report mentioned the analysis discovered that 10 per cent of menopausal girls who’re or have been employed throughout the menopause have left their job as a result of signs.
Mapped on to the entire UK inhabitants of ive million girls aged 45 to 55, that will signify 333,000 girls leaving their jobs due to menopause, the report added.
It additionally discovered {that a} additional 13 per cent of menopausal girls who’ve been employed throughout menopause have thought-about leaving their job, and disabled girls are extra seemingly (22 per cent) to have performed so.
Ladies who mentioned they skilled 5 or extra “very troublesome” menopause signs had been additionally extra seemingly (19 per cent) to give up.
The analysis was commissioned by Finestripe Productions, which produced the documentary, and was carried out by Savanta ComRes.
It additionally revealed that just about half (45 per cent) of the ladies surveyed had not talked to somebody at their GP follow about menopause.
Even amongst girls with 5 or extra extreme signs, 29 per cent had not spoken to their GP or a nurse.
Round a 3rd (31 per cent) mentioned it took many appointments with their GP to understand they had been experiencing menopause or perimenopause. This determine rose to 45 per cent amongst girls of color and 42 per cent amongst girls with 5 or extra signs.
Solely 39 per cent of girls who spoke to somebody at their GP follow mentioned they had been supplied hormone alternative remedy (HRT) as soon as they had been recognized with menopause.
The figures come because the UK is affected by a extreme scarcity of HRT, which accommodates the hormone oestrogen and may helped alleviate extreme menopause signs.
Prescriptions for HRT have greater than doubled in England over the previous 5 years, in keeping with NHS knowledge.
Figures from OpenPrescribing recommend practically 538,000 prescriptions for HRT remedy had been issued in December, in contrast with 238,000 in January 2017.
The British Menopause Society has suggested medics to contemplate different HRT preparations for girls who can not get their standard inventory of Oestrogel, together with the gel Sandrena or the spray Lenzetto.
Different types of HRT have additionally suffered a scarcity as demand outstrips provide.
Fawcett Society chief govt Jemima Olchawski mentioned it was a “nationwide scandal” that menopausal girls are dealing with “pointless distress”.
“From ready too lengthy for the proper care, to uniforms that trigger pointless discomfort – girls are being badly let down,” she mentioned.
“Too typically menopause signs have been dismissed as a joke and HRT has been labelled a way of life drug.
“However with 44 per cent of girls dealing with three or extra extreme signs, our analysis helps to dispel that nonsense.
“Confronted with that misinformation, is it a surprise that solely half of girls are even searching for assist from their GP?”
Olchawski urged the federal government to require employers to have menopause motion plans, create a rout into menopause healthcare and guarantee GPs are adequately skilled to identify signs.
“For too lengthy, menopause has been shrouded in stigma, we have to break the tradition of silence and guarantee menopausal girls are handled with the dignity and help they deserve as an alternative of being anticipated to simply get on with it,” she added.
Davina McCall informed the BBC’s Sunday Morning present that if there was a scarcity of insulin or every other drug it will get “sorted out instantly”.
Further reporting by PA
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