Menopause is burning up senior-level women’s careers. 4 things companies can do to keep them from burning out

Kacy Fleming was presenting in a boardroom when the burning started. It began at her thighs and rose up through her torso as the legal counsel in the room pushed back on her points. She whipped off her blazer even though all she was wearing underneath was a threadbare James Perse tank top. “I felt totally unprofessional and I didn’t even care because I was so hot,” she says. “I thought it was because I was pissed because so often in corporate environments our emotions are so bottled up they c...