Top Take-Aways

- Menopause support could be costing England’s state schools up to £280m over the course of careers of its current female teachers

- One senior teacher told how she found herself regularly lost in corridors on the brink of tears and feared being viewed as “useless” or “unsuited for the job” by her colleagues

- Another described how working in a male dominated science department meant she felt she had no one to talk to

- 46.9 per cent of England’s total teacher workforce being women over 40