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Connect, share, learn and be inspired
The purpose of the menopause@work network meet-ups is to provide a space where workplace professionals interested in this area can connect, share their experience , learn from each other and be inspired by what others are doing.
At each event we hear from different workplaces, or researchers who are studying this area, so we can learn from the latest theory as well as application.
Upcoming Network Meetings
Accidental Advocates: Lessons in Changing Menopause Culture at Work
Discover how two professionals turned personal challenges into powerful workplace change—and how you can too.
Are you ready to make your workplace more menopause-friendly? Join us for this free online event where you’ll hear from two inspiring “accidental advocates” who are breaking the silence and driving real change in academia and medicine.
It's on: Wednesday, 5 November 2025, 12 Noon AEDT - Register here
What you’ll gain:
- Powerful stories of challenge, resilience and breakthrough
- Fresh inspiration for what’s possible in your own workplace
- Practical advocacy tips you can use straight away
Speakers:
- Melissa Stewart (she/her), Change and Communications Lead, University of Melbourne. Melissa successfully campaigned for groundbreaking menopause and menstrual leave at the University of Melbourne and founded the UoM Period and Menopause Staff Network.
- Dr Andrea Binks, Anaesthetist, Wollongong Hospital. Andrea is a medical specialist who is tackling the silence around menopause in medicine, raising awareness through her professional college and national media.
Come along, get inspired, and discover how you too can help create supportive workplaces where women can thrive.
Past Network Meetings - Recordings
Catchup on all our meetings 24/7 via the videos below
Menopause and menstruation at work - global insights for immediate action
Is your workplace ready for the future of women's health at work? This meeting features one of the world's foremost experts on menopause and menstruation in the workplace — Professor Kathleen Riach - in discussion with Thea O'Connor, Founder and Director of Menopause at Work Asia Pacific. Kathleen is Professor of Management at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, and Honorary Professor at Monash University. She is also the chair convenor of the forthcoming ISO global guidelines on menopause and menstrual health at work and a key advisor to the Scottish Government on this issue. Links mentioned in the discussion:
- ABC Radio Life Matters
- About Menopause at Work
- Information on the MAPLE Framework
- ISO Standard
- About Menopause at Work Asia Pacific
Broadcast: 16 July 2025
Ways to Fund your Menopause Initiatives when Budgets are Tight
When budgets are tight and you have many competing priorities on your training and wellbeing wish list, how do you get your boss to open the purse strings for your much-needed workplace menopause program or strategy? Especially in a climate where DEI initiatives are facing increasing scrutiny? At this Menopause at Work Network meeting, Thea is joined by Australia’s leading workplace wellbeing expert, Katrina Johnston. As Founder and Director of Wellness Designs, she’s helped hundreds of practitioners like you craft wellbeing strategies that make good business sense to your leaders.
Resources mentioned during the presentation
Broadcast: 13 May 2025
Is Menopause a Hidden Work Health and Safety Issue?
Sue Chennell of Shared Safety and Risk, and David Savio, Director of Health Safety & Wellbeing at LifeBlood join Thea O'Connor, Director of Menopause at Work to discuss the possible physical and psychosocial risks associated with menopause and how to ameliorate these by applying a gendered, life-stage lens to your risk assessments and controls
March, 2025
What are unions doing in relation to menopause in the workplace?
Kate Marshall, Assistant National Secretary of the Health Services Union and the Assistant State Secretary of HACSU Victoria, shares developments in the campaign for Reproductive Leave, including the push for workplace accommodations as well as for paid leave.
March, 2024
Is menopause / menstruation leave a good idea?
Dani Howe from Western Sydney University and Endo@Work Project and Fiona Hitchener from Parents at Work examine the pros and cons of Menopause/Menstruation Leave.
November, 2023
What are workplaces doing about menopause? Learning from our Peers.
Hear how one private and one large government sector organisation have been embedding menopause awareness into their workplaces. Presenters: Rosanna Luca, Senior Engagement Officer at NSW Dept of Planning and Environment and Anu Wettasinghe, Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing Manager at QBE Insurance Australia.
August, 2023
When sexed language matters - Women's Health at Work
Presenter: Karleen Gribble who is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Western Sydney University speaks about the importance of sexed language in communications regarding reproductive health.
June, 2023
What Does Best Practice Look Like?
World leaders in the menopause@work space share insights into the latest research, and the standards that workplaces need to demonstrate in order to achieve the UK's Menopause-Friendly Accreditation.
Breast Cancer, Medical Menopause & Workplace Support
Sue Woodall Founder of LiveWorkCancer and Dr Kelly Teagle Founder of WellFemme present to the Menopause@Work Asia Pacific workplace network about breast cancer, medical menopause and how workplaces can accomodate this common health challenge.
Cognition During Menopause: Implications for Workplaces
Presenter: Clinical Neuropsychologist and Associate Professor Caroline Gurvich, Monash University, Head of the Hormones and Cognition Group.
July, 2022.
Employment Law and Menopause
Presenter: Nicola Martin, partner in the Labour & Employment Practice Group at Squire Patton Boggs.
March, 2022.
Getting Menopause on your workplace agenda
Presenters: Rebecca Clancy and Jill Sears from Melbourne Water and Emma Howard, National Mental Health Manager, Clayton Utz.
October 2021
How to Navigate your Career During Menopause
Presenters: Janelle Delany, partner atIBM, Sally Murphy, TAFENSW and Kerry O’Connor Highschool teacher, Logan, Queensland.
August 2021
What workplaces are doing regarding menopause at work.
Features presenters from Penny Spalding, Queensland Teachers Union, Kim Lion and Scott Laird IPG Mediabrands and Julie Stafford. University of Cantebury, New Zealand.
April 2021
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