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Menopause is quietly pushing experienced women out of work: cutting hours, passing on promotions, leaving jobs they never wanted to leave. Not because they chose to. Because they had no support, no language for what they were experiencing, and no path forward.
Pauza is building ready-made menopause training for the workplace: video programs your company licenses, your people watch, and nobody has to schedule. First programs launch this fall, and we’re selecting a small founding cohort of companies now.
$26.6B
The estimated annual cost of menopause symptoms in the US: $1.8 billion in lost work time, the rest in medical expenses. — Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2023
13%
of employed US women aged 45–60 report an adverse work outcome from menopause symptoms: missing work, cutting hours, quitting, retiring early, or changing jobs. — Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2023
51%
of working women in the menopause transition say it has negatively impacted their work life. Only 14% believe their employer recognizes the need for menopause-specific benefits. — Bank of America & National Menopause Foundation, 2023
20%
of the US workforce is in some phase of the menopause transition right now. — Bank of America & National Menopause Foundation, 2023
For Employers
What We’re Building for Employers
Two ready-made training programs, built from the same evidence-based content that powers Pauza, delivered in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. In production now, launching this fall.
Workforce Education
Video-based education that gives your whole team the language for what one in five of your colleagues is experiencing. Two streams: one for women navigating the transition, one for everyone they work with. Self-paced, nothing to schedule, no facilitator required.
Lead: Manager & HR Training
Five modules that equip managers to support affected employees with competence and confidence: what to say, what not to say, and how to handle it well. Self-paced and built for busy people leaders.
How It Works
Both programs are annual licenses per company: everyone on your team gets access, the content is reviewed and updated as the science and treatments evolve, and your license renews yearly so new joiners are always covered and the material never goes stale. Pricing is quoted per company, based on headcount.
The Business Case
Why menopause-inclusive companies win
Retain your most experienced people. The transition coincides with peak seniority; supported employees stay, and the cost above is what leaving looks like
Reduce absenteeism and quiet productivity loss. In the Mayo Clinic data, women with the most severe untreated symptoms were over fifteen times more likely to have an adverse work outcome. Treatable is the operative word
Close a gap your employees already see: 64% of women want menopause-specific benefits, and only 14% think their employer has noticed. — Bank of America & National Menopause Foundation, 2023
Become the employer women recommend. Women with access to menopause benefits are significantly more likely to recommend their company as a great place to work
Get ahead of where this is going: menopause bills with bipartisan support have been introduced in Congress, and workplace support is moving from differentiator to expectation
Do it in three languages. Programs delivered in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, for US teams and Latin American operations alike
Join first, and lock in founding pricing
We’re opening a founding cohort for a small group of companies who want to bring menopause training to their teams first. Founding cohort companies lock in our founding annual rate on Know and Lead — held at every renewal for as long as you stay with us — and get first access as they launch this fall.
All we ask in return is your honest feedback as we refine the programs, and, only if you’re happy, permission to mention that your company was an early partner.
If you’ve been meaning to take this seriously, this is the moment to do it on the best terms we’ll ever offer.
Become a Founding PartnerReady to support your team?
Every company is different. Tell us about your workforce and we’ll tell you, plainly, what we can deliver now and what’s coming.
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