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Additionally, while most women in the United States apparently have a negative view of menopause as a time of deterioration or decline, some studies seem to indicate that women from some Asian cultures have an understanding of menopause that focuses on a sense of liberation and celebrates the freedom from the risk of pregnancy. [118]
Menopause is a natural decline in the ovarian function of women who reach the age between 45 and 54 years. "About 25 million women pass through menopause worldwide each year, and it has been estimated that, by the year 2030, the world population of menopausal and postmenopausal women will be 1.2 billion, with 47 million new entrants each year."
According to a recent study from Elektra Health, a digital platform that offers menopause-related education and support, only one in five women between the ages of 40 and 60 receive a menopause ...
The grandmother hypothesis is a hypothesis to explain the existence of menopause in human life history by identifying the adaptive value of extended kin networking. It builds on the previously postulated "mother hypothesis" which states that as mothers age, the costs of reproducing become greater, and energy devoted to those activities would be better spent helping her offspring in their ...
Now, a new book called The Menopause Brain details the impact this change has on women’s brains, and why. Delving into the “menopause brain” phenomenon and brain fog. Delving into the ...
We asked 1,500 women for their intimate thoughts about menopause — the best and worst symptoms, how they saw themselves and what they want others to know.
Hine wrote three books about African-American women's history. [11] Her 1989 book Black Women in Whites: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890–1950 was named Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights. [12] She edited a two-volume encyclopedia, Black Women in America, first published ...
In Chicago, the issue of black women voters was a competition between the middle-class women's clubs, and the black preachers. Prominent women activists in Chicago included Ida B. Wells and Ada S. McKinley, Who attracted a national audience, as well as Ella Berry, Ida Dempsey and Jennie Lawrence. By 1930, blacks comprised upwards of 1/5 of the ...