Politics, Advocacy & the “Menopause Gold Rush”
Why So Many Women Feel Exploited in the Menopause Market.
When researchers call menopause a “gold rush,” it forces us to confront a truth many women already felt instinctively. There is profit in our confusion. Millions of women report feeling uninformed, unsupported or dismissed and into that gap steps a marketplace of supplements, influencers, private clinics and quick fixes offering hope at a price.
The Guardian recently highlighted this problem when University College London researchers found that only 22 percent of women felt well-informed about menopause.
That statistic is not simply medical, it is political. It exposes how deeply society has under invested in women’s health, education and long-term wellbeing.
For communities like ours, Black, Asian, immigrant, working class, faith-based, this gap is even wider. We face cultural silence, stigma, lack of representation and systems that were never built with us in mind. When mainstream information fails us, the commercial world sees a profitable opportunity.
This is why advocacy matters.
This is why community matters. This is why culturally intelligent voices must lead the conversation.
We cannot allow menopause care to become another area where women pay for clarity that should have been free, for safety that should have been standard, for knowledge that should have been accessible from the start.
As a community, we are reclaiming this narrative. We are building spaces where women can ask questions without fear, share experiences without shame and get evidence-based information without exploitation.
Let us talk openly.
Have you ever felt overwhelmed or mistrustful of menopause products, programmes or influencers?
