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Who Cares About the Wellbeing of Middle-Aged Women?<\/p>\n \n

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Katja Laakkonen with Erja Laakkonen, Reetta Haverinen and Iiris Lehto delivered a conference presentation examining the meaning structures of sponsored menopause-related content circulating in social media at the Social and Public Policy Winter School of the University of Eastern Finland, held on 18\u201319 March 2026. <\/p>\n \n

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Shawna O\u2019Hearn: Towards a shared language of menopause equity<\/p>\n \n

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Aija Lulle interviewed Shawna O’Hearn – an occupational therapist with a PhD on perimenopause experiences among Canadian health professionals. O’Hearn researches menopause\u2019s everyday realities\u2014identity, family, community, and workplaces\u2014while championing the inclusion of all voices.<\/p>\n \n

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Interview with Joanna Maliszewska-Mazek and Anna Samsel from Kulczyk Foundation: Menopause, Social Change, and Systemic Solutions in Poland<\/p>\n \n

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Aija Lulle sat down with the Kulczyk Foundation in Poland to explore how menopause awareness is emerging from discussions of period poverty, and she discovered relevance of midwives – practical, experience based approaches to menopause care today.<\/p>\n \n

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Katja Laakkonen: Middle-age as an asset<\/p>\n \n

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“At first, many of the terms used around me were unfamiliar, so I often looked them up later or sought explanations through other means. Gradually, however, the language began to make sense, and I came to recognise that my working-class background and professional experience was not a disadvantage in academia. On the contrary, it was increasingly regarded as an asset.”<\/p>\n \n

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Agnese Bartolucci: \u2018I care deeply about understanding social phenomena\u2019. Information design and the role of a data scientist <\/p>\n \n

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“I enjoy, and take pride in, helping others understand complex concepts by making them clearer through visualization. For a long time, I also described what I do as \u201cmaking data beautiful,\u201d and I still hope my work feels that way.”\r\n\r\n<\/p>\n \n

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