Empowering Conversations About Menopause

Learn how to break the silence and start informed, supportive conversations that make menopause visible at work.

A lack of menopause support is hurting employee productivity and even driving women out of the workforce, research shows.

However, only one in five companies offer menopause benefits. Why? While most women want their employers to provide menopause benefits, only 2% have asked HR for them.

Stigma leads to silence, and that silence comes at a cost; U.S. businesses lose an estimated $1.8 billion per year in lost work hours due to unsupported menopause symptoms.

Our new guide, "Empowering Conversations About Menopause," aims to help employers break the silence. This free resource offers tips for HR and business leaders to start supportive conversations, reduce stigma, and make it easier for employees to get the menopause care they need to stay healthy and productive at work.

This guide is part of our Menopause in the Workplace toolkit, a suite of practical resources designed to help companies create menopause-friendly workplaces.

In addition to this conversation guide, the free toolkit includes:

✅ Menopause PulseCheck: How Menopause-Friendly Is Your Workplace?
Assess how your company's menopause support stacks up across culture, policy, and benefits — and walk away with personalized recommendations for making your company more menopause-friendly.

🧩 Naming and Shaping Your Menopause Strategy
You may already have the building blocks for menopause support; learn how to recognize and adapt existing benefits.

🩺 Improving Health Care Benefits for Menopause
Key considerations and prompts to help you start a conversation with your provider and champion the right care for your team.

You can visit HAA's Women's Health at Work page to explore these tools and more resources and articles to help you better support employees through every stage of life, including menopause.

We’d love to hear how you're using these free tools! Drop us a line at hello@healthaction.org to let us know how they're working for you and your team.

The Health Action Alliance is the country’s largest employer network operating at the intersection of business and public health. With a network of more than 11,000 employers nationwide, we’re on a mission to make employees healthier and our communities stronger. We know good health is good business.