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City women speak up on struggles with menopause: ‘I thought I had early onset dementia’

Leading women open up about how the condition has affected their work, and how they got support when they needed it

Lauren Chiren, who quit work because of menopause, said companies cannot approach the issue as a 'one-off lunch and learn and feel as if they’ve ticked a box'
Lauren Chiren, who quit work because of menopause, said companies cannot approach the issue as a 'one-off lunch and learn and feel as if they’ve ticked a box'

Lauren Chiren was at the top of her game. She was in her early 40s and a successful executive at one of the UK’s largest banks.

But in 2014, she started to feel like something was “dreadfully wrong”. She was forgetting colleagues’ names, including people she had headhunted and worked with for years.

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