Struggling with perimenopause?

Guess what? The UK government doesn't have your back

This is my HRT. You will have to prise it out of my cold dead hands

Not exactly a shocker I know, but this week the government spelt out what many of us have suspected all along: if you’re a woman over 40, give or take a few years – whatever your race, class or sexual identity – they’d prefer it if you could just toddle along and stop clogging up the workplace.

On Tuesday, the long awaited response to the cross-party Women and Equalities Committee Report on Menopause and the Workplace (three months overdue and counting) crawled into the light, with all the enthusiasm of a perimenopausal woman greeting the alarm after a sleepless night of panic attacks and night sweats. In fact, probably less.

I’m not going to go into all the ins and outs of the response here, because others have done that already and doubtless better and far more thoroughly tha…