Why is menopause still holding Australian women back from their full potential?

One expert told a Senate inquiry of ‘the exploitation of women by commercial interests who have jumped on menopause’. Photograph: The Good Brigade/Getty Images

When it comes to menopause, Australia could learn a thing or two from toothed whales.

The unusual comparison was made by the journalist Imogen Crump in a panel of women with experience of menopause at a Senate inquiry investigating its health and economic effects.