How Workplaces Are Failing Peri and Menopausal Women with Karen Schulman Dupuis
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The episode discusses the challenges faced by peri and menopausal women in the workplace, highlighting issues of ageism and corporate gaslighting.
Midlife Women: Invisability, Ageism, Menopause, and Corporate Gaslighting What happens when corporate spaces look at 30+ years of unmatched wisdom, killer instincts, and unshakeable experience and say, “Yikes, that looks expensive... can we trade it in for an entry-level budget?” In this episode, we are diving deep into the bizarre corporate paradox that expects women of a certain age to just... evaporate. Joining the conversation is Karen Schulman Dupuis, an unstoppable business designer, technologist, and researcher whose recent master’s research, Women Disrupted, delivers the hard, undeniable data on what actually happens to women’s careers after 40. Damn - and we’re the FxCK you 50s - we need to power up our sisters 10 years our junior!! Karen’s qualitative study on women aged 40–64 blows the lid off the conventional corporate and support ecosystems. Her findings are crystal clear and entirely unfiltered: not a single woman in the study was better off financially after a career disruption, and 100% of those who turned to self-employment refused to call themselves "entrepreneurs." We are stripping away the fluffy "awareness" campaigns and exposing how systemic barriers like…
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