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  • What The Fog, Asia’s pioneering menopause festival, is back

    What The Fog, Asia’s pioneering menopause festival, is back

    Asia’s pioneering menopause festival is back with the theme of closing the menopause gap at work. Here’s why you should attend

    Last year, Lisa Tarquini, founder of The Menopause Space, a platform to educate and empower those who are impacted by menopause and to drive conversations on the topic, launched Hong Kong’s first menopause festival, What The Fog. 

    “We want menopausal women to feel positive and confident about their transition, and we want their partners to understand the impact it can have on a woman’s physical and mental health,” Tarquini told Tatler Front & Female ahead of that inaugural festival. “We want health professionals to recognise that more needs to be done to support women’s health, and we want employers to recognise that the workplace needs to provide a certain level of education and support to ensure the retention of female talent.”

    Through that first event Tarquini had wanted to support women in three areas—targeting the impact of menopause on women’s health, on women in the home, and on women at work. 

    This year, What The Fog will hone in on one of those three areas with its theme ‘Closing the menopause gap at work across Asia Pacific’. 

    See also: Menopause Matters: It’s time to talk about menopause in the workplace

    Menopause is a workplace issue. Typically impacting women between the ages of 45 and 55, it often occurs at a crucial point in a woman’s career, with symptoms that can significantly affect a woman’s well-being over an extended period of time. These can include hot flushes, brain fog, poor sleep and anxiety, all of which can be disruptive.

    It is important that companies create inclusive workplaces and offer reasonable adjustments to accommodate women going through this natural life event. Not only is this important for women’s well-being, but will be key to retaining and attracting valuable female talent that is increasingly looking for employers that support this life stage. 

    Workplaces have come a long way in supporting women returning to work as new mothers, but while not everybody wants to be or can be a mother, 100 percent of women will go through menopause. What policies and strategies can be implemented? How can women be best supported and what do they need to know about tackling this taboo topic in a professional capacity? 

    What The Fog, which takes place on October 18, World Menopause Day, will see a stellar line-up of panellists and speakers share their expertise to help close the knowledge gap and drive positive change in the workplace. Here are some of the highlights of this year’s festival. 

    See also: Are menstrual and menopause leave policies a good thing?

    For more than 30 years, Dr Ho Choon Moy has been treating menopausal women and keeping abreast of the latest menopause research, both through her work as an ObGyn and as president of the Asia-Pacific Menopause Federation. She is also a past president of the Malaysian Menopause Society. Engaging and accessible, she will share valuable insights and practical advice as well as the latest findings, highlighting how lifestyle and diet changes can play an important role, alongside traditional medication, in helping women to manage menopause.

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  • Christa McAuliffe, still pioneering, is first woman with a statue on New Hampshire capitol grounds

    Christa McAuliffe, still pioneering, is first woman with a statue on New Hampshire capitol grounds

    CONCORD, N.H. — Decades after she was picked to be America’s first teacher in space, Christa McAuliffe is still a pioneer — this time as the first woman to be memorialized on the grounds of New Hampshire’s Statehouse, in the city where she taught high school.

    McAuliffe was 37 when she was killed, one of the seven crew members aboard the Challenger when the space shuttle broke apart on live TV on Jan. 28, 1986. She didn’t have the chance to give the lessons she had planned to teach from space. But people are still learning from her.

    “Beyond the tragedy, her legacy is a very positive one,” said Benjamin Victor, the sculptor from Boise, Idaho, whose work is being unveiled in Concord on Monday, on what would have been McAuliffe’s 76th birthday. “And so it’s something that can always be remembered and should be.”

    The 8-foot-tall (2.4-meter) bronze likeness atop a granite pedestal is believed to be the first full statue of McAuliffe, known for her openness to experimental learning. Her motto was: “I touch the future, I teach.”

    “To see a hero like Christa McAuliffe memorialized in this way will undoubtedly inspire the next generation of students each time they visit the New Hampshire Statehouse,” Gov. Chris Sununu said in a statement. His executive order enabled the McAuliffe statue to join statues of leaders such as Daniel Webster, John Stark and President Franklin Pierce.

    McAuliffe was picked from among 11,000 candidates to be the first teacher and private citizen in space. Beyond a public memorial at the Statehouse plaza on Jan. 31, 1986, the Concord school district and the city, population 44,500, have observed the Challenger anniversary quietly through the years, partly to respect the privacy of her family. Christa and Steven McAuliffe’s son and daughter were very young at the time she died and was buried in a local cemetery. Steven McAuliffe wanted the children to grow up in the community normally.

    But there are other memorials, dozens of schools and a library named for McAuliffe, as well as scholarships and a commemorative coin. A science museum in Concord is dedicated to her and to native son Alan Shepard, the first American in space. The auditorium is named for her at Concord High School, where she taught American history, law, economics and a self-designed course called “The American Woman.” Students rush past a painting of her in her astronaut uniform.

    In 2017-2018, two educators-turned-astronauts at the International Space Station recorded some of the lessons that McAuliffe had planned to teach, on Newton’s laws of motion, liquids in microgravity, effervescence and chromatography. NASA then posted “Christa McAuliffe’s Lost Lessons” online, a resource for students everywhere.

    Victor comes from a family of educators, including his mother, with whom he’s shared a number of discussions about McAuliffe as he’s worked on the statue — including his recollection of watching the Challenger disaster on television as a second-grader in Bakersfield, California.

    “It was so sad, but I guess all these years later, the silver lining has been the way her legacy has continued on,” he said.

    Victor has sculpted four of the statues in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall, the most of any living artist. To represent McAuliffe, he looked at many images and videos, and he met with Barbara Morgan, who participated in the Teacher in Space program as backup to McAuliffe for the Challenger mission. Morgan also lives in Boise and let him borrow her uniform, the same as the one McAuliffe wore.

    “Getting to talk to Barbara about Christa, just learning even more, it’s just something that’s irreplaceable,” Victor said. “Just to hear about her character. It’s just amazing.”

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