"New science...proposes that menopause is not decline but an evolutionary transition into...leadership and wisdom.... Data from anthropology, evolutionary biology, genetics and neuroscience, points toward our post-menopausal female ancestors being the social architects of human civilization..."
Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯
Treating menopause as an ending rather than a new stage of life carries costs that ripple through society.
Investments in menopause research might help show the economic, social and cultural costs of treating menopause as decline for older women.