Dozens of councils, universities, police forces and fire services have developed ‘male menopause’ policies, a Mail audit has revealed, sparking anger from women’s rights group and fresh concerns about shirking and inefficiency among public employees.
In what critics described as a “further erosion of women’s rights”, a string of public bodies have drawn up ‘woke’ protocols that insist “men may also experience menopause symptoms”.
Many recommend offering special treatment to help middle-aged men cope with everything from poor sleep to mood swings.
Guidelines issued to managers include letting sufferers work from home or start late, with employers warned that the effects from falling testosterone levels can last “for up to 20 years”.
The Mail’s audit found widespread inclusion of men in menopause guidelines for public employers – even though the male menopause is not a clinically recognised condition.
Recommendations include letting firefighters swap shifts or “work from home on an ad hoc basis if they’ve had a rough night”.
Police forces in the U.K. and Ireland are being encouraged to adopt “agile and flexible” working practices to “help, support, and guide all officers” dealing with menopause, regardless of gender.
Meanwhile, several councils and numerous universities have adopted their own male menopause policies, which critics say are leaving women fighting for “ownership of something which is biologically female”.
Caroline ffiske, from campaign group Conservatives For Women, said the wokery undid “years of fighting for menopause recognition”.
She said: “It’s absolutely ludicrous to take the female menopause and extend that concept to men.
“Women can’t have anything of their own. They can’t have their own spaces, they can’t have their own words and now they can’t even have their own recognition of their bodily differences.
“It’s absurd and insulting to women that we now have to fight for our illnesses and conditions and further erosion of women’s rights.”
East Midlands Ambulance Service is reportedly allowing men to take up to a year’s paid leave if they are ill.
There is no legal obligation for organisations to publish menopause policies, so this is likely to be only the tip of the iceberg, the Mail adds.
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What could possibly go wrong.
The threat to us of Chinese firms with connections to the CCP is almost insignificant compared to the immediate and massive threat we face right now on a daily basis from our own ruling class who have in the last few days revealed with astonishing clarity that they don’t understand the difference between the environment and climate change.
Boris Johnson and Kemi Badenoch and presumably all the rest of them thought Net Zero was a good idea because it would improve the environment, clearly not realising that it is a project to eliminate CO2 which is no way related to how clean the environment is.
That level of stupidity and ignorance from people with actual power over us is far far more dangerous than any Chinese company.
Indeed – and which was the more dangerous – the “Chinese virus” or the catastrophic “reaction” to it by governments all over the rich world?
Never trust anything branded SMART – In a past life, we had work objectives that were meant to be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timed.
In that line of business, few objectives ever survived contact with reality for very long.
Know thine enemy.
The Chinese will rule the world without a single shot being fired, and our dopey government thinks the Chinese are a state to trust with our energy supply and infrastructure. Barking mad.
That is their plan, and has been for many, many years…
Bogeyman China. Just imagine what would happen to UK’s energy grid if China switched off all our solar power – nothing?
If you do not wish to buy Chinese products then buy another country’s products or, better still, make your own.
Ah but that would require thinking further ahead than a week next Tuesday, AND it might be a few quid more… can’t have that!