Menopause and Disability Insurance

Now I am lucky, and I can work from home. My schedule is my own and I am free to menopause when I have to.

Many of you are not. You must suffer offices, construction sites, sports fields, restaurants, pick a setting.

Air conditioner settings you have no control over. UGH. Or no AC at all.

You are a Chef. A Foreman. Team Captain. Doctor. List every position and there is a woman in it. Many are Queens or Prime Ministers and yes, Presidents of their countries.

Women are 20% of the workforce in this world... at least. (They only track paid jobs.)

They all will go through menopause, are in menopause, or have gone through menopause. Unless some reason allowed them the freedom to avoid this hell. (I know, give and take.)

Because menopause can hit us at any age, you can only tell a woman is in menopause if:

·        She tells you.

·        You can see her sweating like nobody’s business.

I do not see how I could function in a workplace with a set timeframe to get shit done. Moving around, peeing, sweating, exhaustion, all take away from a “days” work. If you work in that type of setting, it must be pure hell for many of you.

“To have a disability under the ADA, a person must have an impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.”

Oh, menopause is quite an impairment. But does Menopause limit one or more of your major life activities?

What are major life activities?

From the net: Major life activities are those functions that are important to most people's daily lives. Examples of major life activities are breathing, walking, talking, hearing, seeing, sleeping, caring for one's self, performing manual tasks, and working.

How many of these activities does menopause affect for you?

Eating/drinking does not seem to be on their list, but it should be. Caring for yourself? Sleeping? I can tick those off. Then working. If I was forced to work in any other condition than my own home, I would not be able to function.

Menopause can be a debilitating time in our lives and if it is causing you to not be able to function or work in the environment you are used to, you have the ability to change that.

I do not advocate for going on disability if you do not need it, but some of you will need it.

Use it.