Obviously it's an important issue and it's good that it's being talked about. However women spent years fighting against the perception that we are "slaves to their hormones". Employers would be reluctant to employ women because, they claimed, their menstrual cycle made them unreliable. We had just more or less knocked that on the head and now the media is full of accounts of menopausal symptoms and how difficult some women find this time of their lives. I can't help feeling that this is not going to be good for women in general.