‘Menopause market’: Australian women being driven to treat symptoms with unnecessary products, study reveals

The report marks the first time a nationally representative survey of Australian women has been conducted to ask about menopause experiences. Photograph: Vladimir Vladimirov/Getty Images

There are powerful commercial incentives to “catastrophise” menopause in the minds of Australian women to drive them to purchase products to treat it, a major study into its symptoms has found.

Published on Thursday, the report draws on data from 3,570 women aged 18 and over who took part in the 2023 National Women’s Health Survey who said they had reached menopause.