How Singaporean working mothers perceive and nanage menopause.

This research paper will be focusing on, how Singaporean working mothers, within the age of 50-58 years old, manage menopause. Open-structure questionnaires, face-to-face interviews and phone interviews were conducted on eight working mothers; four working as full-time and two working as part-time....

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Main Author: Tan, Denise Xuan Yin.
Other Authors: Tam Chen Hee
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/33976
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:This research paper will be focusing on, how Singaporean working mothers, within the age of 50-58 years old, manage menopause. Open-structure questionnaires, face-to-face interviews and phone interviews were conducted on eight working mothers; four working as full-time and two working as part-time. The overall aim of this research is to investigate on how working mothers perceived menopause and the methods they applied to help in managing menopause. It was found that these women perceived menopause negatively and three methods were used most commonly used to manage their menopausal symptoms. The menopausal management methods were career, religion and going for medical consultation. Keywords: gender role, working mothers, menopause, management, career, religion, medical consultation.