Should severe menopause symptoms be a disability? One country thinks so.

LONDON - As a growing number of countries start giving women menstrual leave to deal with period pains, Britain is considering going one step further, saying that severe menopause symptoms could be a disability. On Thursday, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), an independent watchdog that enforces legislation in the United Kingdom, published guidance saying that if menopause symptoms “have a long term and substantial impact on a woman’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activit

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