Older women are furious after being excluded from a major government survey about reproductive health.
The Department of Health announced on Thursday a 'landmark' online questionnaire covering every aspect of reproductive health from periods and contraception to pregnancy and the menopause.
Ministers said they wanted to hear about the experiences of women across England, including the challenges of going through the menopause at work, to shape future policy.
But details of the survey revealed it is only open to women aged between the ages of 16 and 55.
The Women's Rights Network campaign group called on health ministers to address the oversight.
It said: 'Potentially useful survey - but doesn't want the views of women over 55.
'All that experience of reproductive health is apparently not important or needed at all - even in respect of menopause. Utterly bizarre.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12498099/Fury-women-age-55-excluded-major-government-survey-reproductive-health.html
Surely women over 55 are able to contribute more than younger women on the basis that they have probably not only given birth and gone through the menopause. ie they have the lived experience.
How did anyone, ie whoever was delegated to actual create the survey even begin to think that excluding older women was logical.