New Delhi: For years, menopause has been framed as a “women-only issue”, discussed quietly, privately, and usually only when symptoms become unbearable. But this approach has left out half the population — menwho unknowingly play a major role in how a woman experiences this transition.
The exclusion isn’t deliberate; it’s cultural. We educate boys about puberty, yet we never teach them about their mothers, wives’, or colleagues’ midlife hormonal changes. The result? When women in their 40s and 50s experience anxiety, fatigue, brain fog, sleep disturbances, or emotional fluctuations, the men around them often misread these as personality shifts, stress, or moodiness. What they’re actually witnessing is biology — not behaviour.
And this misunderstanding carries real consequences. Many women report feeling unseen, unsupported, or misunderstood by their partners and male colleagues. That emotional isolation — not the symptoms themselves — often becomes the hardest part of menopause.
To change this, men don’t need to fix menopause; they just need to understand it. Even simple awareness helps:
Research shows that when partners understand menopause, relationship satisfaction rises and emotional conflict decreases. Workplaces see similar benefits when male managers are educated — productivity improves, and women feel safer asking for accommodations, shares Tamanna Singh, Co-founder MenoVeda, Certified Menopause coach.
“Menopause may happen in a woman’s body, but every relationship around her feels its ripple. Awareness from men isn’t optional anymore — it’s transformative.”
It’s time to move the conversation from ‘her problem’ to a shared human experience. Because when men join the dialogue, women stop walking through menopause alone.
