Exhibition News December 2022 | Page 18

DIVERSITY

Rally in Westminster in October .
have worked in the

I exhibition industry almost all my career , which started when I was just 21 . I now find myself at 51 … screeching rather too quickly towards 52 , and I ’ ve hit the point in life that will ( unless you die ) hit every woman in midlife . It is peri-menopause time . EN has asked me to share some pearls of wisdom with you to help support my fellow women in the events industry both young and midlifers . Our aim

Educate , support and understand

Laura Biggs , CEO of Intuitive Media , says that the exhibitions industry needs to support their valuable female employees as they hit mid-life
is to help anyone reading who may employ women to , perhaps , recognise some of the symptoms I am about to list and consider putting in a workplace policy to support your valuable female employees . They will thank you for it and your business performance will too .
It ’ s worth noting before you read on that it is estimated that , in the UK , more than 1m women will leave the workforce because of peri /
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