MP Stéphanie Rist offers the Government this Wednesday, April 9, the information report of the Parliamentary mission on the difficulties linked to menopause that had been entrusted to him in October. This natural physiological state refers to 14 million women in France, according to Inserm, a medical research institute, and results in a rule, without identified cause, which occurs in 51 years on average.
Your arrival can cause several symptoms (heat puffs, night sweats, genitoring disorders or joint pain). But “menopause is also, in France, a social construction, which helps to turn it into a taboo and transmit a difficult image for women, associated with a loss of social value,” warns the information report.
Adolescence information
This report requires “altering our representations” of this life stage that affects all women. This “change of look” goes in particular for “university education, the transformation of communication against the public but also support for research to better understand the phenomenon.”
The information mission thus defends the integration of hormonal aging of men and women in the SVT program of university students.
It also recommends placing France “without waiting” for public health to improve the communication of the general public on menopause. A communication that must be “less anxiety” and “fight against the idea” that “menopause is necessarily a period of decline or crisis”, and that must be presented as “a phase of evolution”, which can “be positive (end of the rules, end of contraception, new period of life)”.
Better medical management
If menopause is not a disease, its symptoms can be intense and frequent for certain women and require medical attention, underline the mission. However, the mission deplores an “abyssal emptiness” in this area. Therefore, it recommends “updating the recommendations of high health authority on menopause management in the late 2025” and strengthening the training of health professionals on this subject on this basis. The mission also evokes a possible “long consultation at the beginning of menopause” in the doctor and the organization of “Assizes de Menopause”.
The last component of the report is related to the working environment of women at the age of menopause. The information mission has indicated that “with some exceptions, managers and human resources departments do not show interest in this problem and have not yet realized their economic implications and their impact on occupational health within their businesses.” However, the symptoms of menopause “do not stop once the office door.”
Therefore, it suggests the creation of a guide “Menopause in the workplace” for managers and employees and the awareness of France’s work agents “in the face of the risks of professional disintection linked to menopause.” The report also proposes to “foster occupational doctors and work nurses to address the issue of menopause during medical visits of half of the carriers to 45 years. The mission also suggests adapting the office team to combat the sedentary lifestyle during menopause.
In her report, Deputy Stéphanie Rist, a rheumatologist, does not require “adapt to” the invisibility of women who suffer their symptoms and are alone. “
Source: BFM TV
