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Forty Percent of Women Report Working Through High Menstrual Pain

What: Journalist and author Shalene Gupta reminds us that unequal pay “is not the only way inequality manifests” among men and women in the workplace. Gupta points to a Deloitte survey that found 40% of women with high menstrual or menopausal pain just work through it. And 20% of women with fertility challenges who had to take time off from work feel like it hurt their careers.

Why it matters: Information like this—a baseline to even know where we are starting from—is a step towards having the conversations needed to address these challenges.

Source: Fast Company

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