Imagine you are part of Gen Z, between the ages of 11 and 26. Now imagine that almost every article you read about people in your generation is about puberty. No one is talking about the work you do or the art you make, or what interests and engages you because they’re obsessed with what your body did, the thing that just about every body has done, forever.

It would be weird, right? Especially because most of the people in Gen Z are through puberty and onto the rest of their lives. You would no doubt wonder about the media’s fascination with a normal physical transition to the exclusion of everything else your generation is doing. 

I’m a sixty-one-year-old woman and almost every article I read about women my age at work is about menopause. This normal part of aging is often described as harrowing;  something older women need special accommodations in the workplace to survive.

Menopause is part of aging for people with two X chromosomes, and we all experience these changes differently. Why can’t menopause be personalized rather than pathologized, just like pregnancy? Menopause, like pregnancy, does end. But without post-menopausal women at work, we don’t hear about that part.

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