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We recently hosted a salon event with New York’s top leaders, executives, healthcare providers, and founders. The topic: modernizing women’s health in the workplace. Why? Because it’s 2023. We’ve modernized so many other elements of the work experience — no more typewriters or rolodexes or floppy disks or landlines! And yet, the state of women’s health benefits is woefully stuck in the past. That needs to change.
Lack of menopause support and care is a women’s health crisis hiding in plain sight. While we’ve made some strides in pushing for greater maternity and fertility support over the past several decades, there is a massive group of working women that we’ve left to suffer without the support and care they deserve: women in menopause.
By Alessandra Henderson 4 minute Read If there’s anything the pandemic has taught us, it’s that our collective view on health and wellness has changed. For too long, taking care of an employee’s wellness was put on the back burner and brushed off as unnecessary and costly—something that an employer could do without. But in 2022, that’s simply no longer the case. Employee benefits are far more than just health insurance and time off.
While the age of Covid and the Great Resignation proved that employee offerings and benefits can no longer stay on the backburner, we still have a long way to go when it comes to supporting mothers and women in the workplace. Motherly’s 2022 State of Motherhood Survey revealed the tip of a colossal iceberg: women are seldom offered the proper support they need by their employers.
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