Almost one in three female workers in Britain expect to stop working before reaching their retirement age with many citing health and well-being issues including the menopause, according to a survey published on Wednesday.
The British Standards Institution, which commissioned the survey, said the results showed the need for employers and the government to take steps to help older women remain in the labour market.
Caring responsibilities and a lack of flexibility in work were both cited as barriers to work by about one in five respondents. Those strategies included providing support for workers experiencing the menopause and steps in other areas such as working flexibly and breaking down stigma, Hayes said. Some 32% of British women aged 50 to 64 were not in work or seeking work in the first quarter of this year, compared with 22% of similarly aged men, official data shows. For men and women aged 25 to 34, the comparable rates were 16% and 8%.
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