{"id":22132,"date":"2025-08-29T11:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T15:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=22132"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T17:51:00","slug":"we-need-to-talk-about-menopause-real-stories-from-womens-lived-experiences","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/event\/we-need-to-talk-about-menopause-real-stories-from-womens-lived-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need to Talk About Menopause: Real Stories from Women\u2019s Lived Experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/08\/MeWeRTH-Banners-for-Newsletters-4-1024x341.png\" alt=\"Banner with presenter's profile photo and title of presentation: Menopause - Real Stories from Women's Lived Experiences\" class=\"wp-image-22133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/08\/MeWeRTH-Banners-for-Newsletters-4-1024x341.png 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/08\/MeWeRTH-Banners-for-Newsletters-4-512x171.png 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/08\/MeWeRTH-Banners-for-Newsletters-4-320x107.png 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/08\/MeWeRTH-Banners-for-Newsletters-4-768x256.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/08\/MeWeRTH-Banners-for-Newsletters-4.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t talk about menopause\u201d was a common response among the 60 women that we interviewed about their experience of the menopausal transition. Menopause is still a taboo topic. We\u2019re not supposed to talk about it. When we do, it\u2019s presented as a deficiency or a disease, rather than a natural part of the aging process for fifty percent of the population. We wanted to start a conversation, to encourage women to talk about their own experiences by reading about the experiences of others. In our interviews, women talked about their peri-menopause and post-menopausal symptoms, the impact that this had on their work and personal lives, who they talked with (if anyone) and how this affected their thoughts about the aging process and their body image. We want to share some of that conversation with you. And that conversation is for everyone \u2013 men and women, regardless of age, because these conversations can help reduce the stigma and better support the transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any accessibility-related accommodations, please email HealthyWorkplace@cunet.carleton.ca <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-22132","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2026-03-04 12:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2026-03-04 13:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"DT","cu_event_meeting_room":"2017","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":"","cu_event_cost":"0","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"HealthyWorkplace@cunet.carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/22132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/22132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22195,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/22132\/revisions\/22195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=22132"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthy-workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=22132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}