🇿🇦 South Africa 6h ago · Lukholo Mazibuko

The workplace conversations women still swallow

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The workplace conversations women still swallow
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Women still swallow words at work that could change their days.



They hide hot flushes, fear, exhaustion and pain because speaking up feels riskier than suffering in silence.



Silence



A woman sits through a meeting while heat floods her chest. Her blouse sticks to her skin. Her mind fogs. She does not ask for the air conditioning to drop because she knows the jokes that will follow about ‘that time of life’.



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