The Daily Mail has criticised Nottinghamshire Police and a number of big companies for what the paper calls \u201cPatronising and insulting\u201d measures to help menopausal women.<\/p>\n
But the story<\/a> \u2013 and particularly a quote from Sam Taylor, Editor of \u201cThe Lady\u201d magazine – was described as \u201cso disappointing\u201d by Menopause Support founder Diane Danzebrink.<\/p>\n Sam Taylor reportedly said: \u2018By the time a woman hits her mid-40s, she really should be able to pull herself together when she\u2019s having a hot flush.\u2019<\/p>\n Diane took to Twitter to respond to Ms Taylor, pointing out that mental symptoms during the menopause can be devastating for some women.<\/p>\n \u201c@sametaylor<\/a> would love to talk to you about this and look at opportunities to educate and empower women coping with debilitating symptoms via @TheLadyMagazine<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n A number of other Twitter users were quick to condemn Ms Taylor\u2019s comments. One said \u201c@sametaylor<\/a> needs educating. Maybe she hasn\u2019t been though the menopause yet, or was one of those fortunate women who just \u201csailed\u201d through it.\u201d<\/p>\n Another responded: \u201cHugely judgemental comments potentially based on her own experience. Try telling a lady actively contemplating suicide because the symptoms are so severe to \u2018pull yourself together\u2019. So sad that this attitude still exists.\u201d<\/p>\n Nottinghamshire Police put its policy into action after former Chief Constable Sue Fish learned that women were leaving the force due to severe menopausal symptoms.<\/p>\n \u2018It was just such a waste of talent,\u2019 she said. \u2018Bringing in a policy was absolutely the right thing to do.\u2019<\/p>\n GP Dr Louise Newson, a GP\u00a0 and a menopause expert adviser to our campaign, told the Mail the effects on women should not be underestimated. Four in five menopausal women experienced symptoms that had an impact on their working lives, according to a study of staff at West Midlands Police.<\/p>\n And she said hot flushes were not even in the top three symptoms of concern, which were fatigue, anxiety and memory loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Daily Mail has criticised Nottinghamshire Police and a number of big companies for what the paper calls \u201cPatronising and insulting\u201d measures to help menopausal women. But the story \u2013 and particularly a quote from Sam Taylor, Editor of \u201cThe Lady\u201d magazine – was described as \u201cso disappointing\u201d by Menopause Support founder Diane Danzebrink. Sam Read more about Disappointing views from the Daily Mail and the Editor of The Lady<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/menopausesupport.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}