Overview
Hot Flush, Cold Truth: Beyond the Pause. Women, Work, and Policy Reform is a groundbreaking book that shatters the silence around perimenopause and menopause.Blending raw personal experience with systemic critique, Julie Dimmick exposes the cultural, medical, and workplace structures that leave women unseen, dismissed, and misdiagnosed. From the boardroom to the GP clinic, the book reveals how midlife women are too often gaslit, overprescribed, or overlooked, and why this is costing not just women, but families, businesses, and economies billions each year.Drawing on lived experience, coaching insight, and policy analysis, Hot Flush, Cold Truth takes readers on a journey from confusion and invisibility to clarity, advocacy, and reform. Each chapter unpacks the personal toll of menopause, the systemic failures of healthcare and workplaces, and the urgent need for cultural and policy change. With practical tools, strategic frameworks, and powerful stories from women across industries and communities, this is both a mirror and a roadmap.This book is for: Women navigating perimenopause or menopause who want language, validation, and strategies.Employers, HR leaders, and policymakers seeking to understand the $10 billion workplace blind spot.Families, partners, and allies ready to support women in midlife with compassion and respect.Courageous, unflinching, and deeply practical, Hot Flush, Cold Truth reframes menopause not as the end of power, but the beginning of a new chapter in women's lives; one of truth, resilience, and reform.
- | Author: Julie Dimmick
- | Publisher: Amazon
- | Publication Date: Nov 01, 2025
- | Number of Pages: 662 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0646726714
- | ISBN-13: 9780646726717
