Women Are Leaving the Workforce for a Little-Talked-About Reason
- About 900,000 quit U.K. jobs due to menopause: a 2019 survey
- Global menopause productivity losses top $150 billion a year
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It’s not every day that a FTSE 100 boss tells you about her nightly hot flashes.
But for 45-year-old Liv Garfield, the chief executive officer of British water utility Severn Trent Plc, it’s a way to demystify a natural phenomenon affecting menopausal women -- a growing cohort at companies around the world. With menopause driving scores of women out of the workforce each year, addressing it is essential, says Garfield.