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The confidence dip nobody puts on a symptom list

The workplace impact of perimenopause is rarely about capability. It's about a temporary loss of trust in yourself, arriving exactly when your career is at its most senior.

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Women in their late forties are the fastest-growing group leaving senior roles. Very few exit interviews mention perimenopause. Almost all of them describe something that sounds exactly like it.

What organisations get wrong

  • Treating it as a wellbeing poster rather than a retention issue
  • Training nobody, then expecting good conversations to happen
  • Offering flexibility to everyone except the people who need it most

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