International Women’s Day has been celebrated for over a century to recognize and commemorate the women’s liberation movement and their fight for equality. We have a come a long way since then but we still have a long way to go. In days of yore, women in midlife who entered menopause were heavily stigmatized as being in a diseased state or “polluted”. Some cultures went as far as to accuse menopausal women of being witches if their sex drive continued beyond their childbearing years. As a result of medical misdiagnoses and uninformed misnomers, women didn’t talk about their conditions or the symptoms they were experiencing during this natural but disruptive…