The Taboo Health Issues Impacting Women’s Mental Health
In this Mental Health Awareness Month, it's time we break the silence and destigmatize taboo health issues that affect millions of women globally.
The Hidden Link: Menopause, Stress and the Modern Workplace
Employers, it’s time to step up and support your female colleagues. For too long now, women have been suffering in silence and although the conversation is starting to change, it’s your duty as an employer to learn about menopause, the impact it’s having on your female colleagues and what support...
The Essential Menopause Support Checklist: A Guide for HR Professionals and Employers
As an HR professional or employer, you’re always on the lookout for ways to support and retain your employees. With women of menopausal age now making up the fastest-growing demographic of the UK workforce, there is increasing recognition of the impact menopause has on women’s wellbeing. Creating a supportive work...
An HR’s Guide To Writing a Menopause Policy
As we move further into 2023, many company leaders are likely reflecting on the past year and reevaluating their HR strategy—especially in terms of their company policies and employee handbooks. Recent global events have increased the need for important HR policies like COVID-19 leave, work-from-home or flexible work policies, further-reaching...
Rejecting the Menopause Leave Pilots: What this means for menopause support in the workplace
In recent news, the UK government has rejected a proposal to introduce “menopause leave” pilots in England. This has now left many women and businesses wondering what this means for menopause support in the workplace, and how women and workplaces can continue to support menopause without this proposed leave. What...
A HR guide to launching a workplace menopause survey
HR leaders: do you really know what’s going on with your employees? If you answered yes, you’ll likely point to the data gleaned from your yearly or quarterly employee engagement survey. And while this is certainly a great start—there’s still something missing. And it means that 20% of your employees...
3 ways HR can improve employee retention for midlife women
In the wake of the Great Resignation (or Great Reshuffle), employee retention has never been a higher priority for human resources teams than it is now. In fact, according to Lattice, 83% of teams are investing either “somewhat” or “significantly” more into employee retention than they have in the past. ...
Forgetting everything? How to cope with brain fog
If you feel like you’re forgetting things or even going mad, it could be brain fog. Here are some tips about how to cope with brain fog during menopause, from Linda Gillham and Kathy Abernethy, clinical experts at Peppy. Quick facts Memory lapses and ‘brain fog’ are common in menopause...
HRT shortages explainedand what you can do
Supplies of HRT are at an all-time low. So, if you’re trying to manage your menopause symptoms, you might go to pick up your prescription and have to leave empty-handed. Here, one of Peppy’s menopause experts explains HRT shortages, and what you can do. HRT shortages, in a nutshell Problems...
Menopause: The Change is Here
https://peppy.health/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/BMS-2021-Peppy.mp4 “Peppy has been a life changer” Watch Peppy in a collaboration production between the British Menopause Society and ITN Productions Peppy is proud to be featured in a programme premiered on World Menopause Day 2021 – Menopause: The Change is Here. The programme, presented by Louise Minchin, explores...
Menopause and the Gender Pension Gap – what’s the connection?
On average women’s pensions are worth less than their male counterparts’. How does the menopause impact on this? Men’s pensions are, on average worth £100,000 more than women’s after a 44-year career. However women should be saving more than men because on average they live 3.4 years longer. And the...
7 eating changes to help hormonal weight gain
The hormone activity faced during perimenopause and menopause can lead to unwanted weight gain. But, eating to support your hormones and manage your weight is easier than you think, says Peppy’s registered nutritionist Kylie Hendrikse. Quick tips: Diets can trick your body into starvation mode, so you feel hungrier. Eating...