Not just a film, but a movement

Menopause remains one of the last taboos in our permissive, talk-about-everything pop culture. Even though every woman will go through some form of this chemical “reordering,” menopause is still regarded as a condition or a disease. Most people understand it as just another “normal” phase in a woman’s life, a phase that is essentially dismissed as a mere bookend in a woman’s evolution from puberty through the end of her reproductive years.

As a result, this transition has been inadequately examined. Instead, menopause has remained largely in the shadows, whispered in horror stories and overplayed in tasteless punchlines.

Women are fed up. It’s time to stand up and be heard! It’s time to create a society in which all women feel prepared for and supported in their journeys to and through menopause.

“The [M] Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause”

I am so proud to be a producer and executive producer on this groundbreaking menopause documentary. We have been working on this film for nearly three years. The film, centers on the lived experiences of women across the U.S. Cameras follow women into their doctors’ offices, at work, and in their homes to expose the challenges they face—including racial biases, gender-ignorant care, inequitable structures and systems, and barriers due to the lack of basic healthcare research. The women featured here open up about their experiences, share their stories of enduring debilitating symptoms while being ignored, ridiculed, shamed—and left untreated.

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A groundbreaking documentary on menopause

Now there’s a movement to fix the broken system, change the culture and transform our future. “The [M] Factor” turns the spotlight on the progress being made. With input from emboldened physicians, healthcare advocates and leaders in the menopause movement, the film focuses on what is being done to address this public health crisis and offers solutions that can be replicated in medical communities and workplaces across the country.

Menopause By The Numbers

80% of women

80% of women experience hot flashes, sleep disruptions, joint paint, UTIs, mental health issues and decreased sexual functions during their menopause journeys.

$1.8 billion

While enduring menopause, women lose an estimated $1.8 billion in earnings each year. Businesses lose an estimated $680 million in productivity each year.

15% of women

Only 15% of women receive evidence-based interventions for menopause symptoms.

1.1 billion women

By 2025, globally there will be 1.1 billion women in perimenopause.

1 out of 4 women

1 out of 4 women felt that their menopause symptoms negatively impacted their career development or work-related opportunities, while 17% have actually quit a job or considered quitting due to menopause symptoms.

80% of patients

80% of patients with autoimmune disease are women. While the root causes may be unknown—they have yet to be fully studied in women—health experts believe menopause can increase the risks and severity of autoimmune diseases.