Jannine Versi

Menopause is in the zeitgeist, in American culture—the focus of an executive order by the president, topping the New York Times’ most popular articles list, gracing the cover of Ms. magazine and even making its way into a Super Bowl commercial two years running. Normalizing this topic in the public discourse is progress.

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.