65% of women with endometriosis recognize a negative impact of the disease on their daily professional life.
- In a new white paper, the Endomind association highlights the difficulties that women with endometriosis have in working, and offers them solutions.
“More than a third of women consider that endometriosis has consequences on their career prospects or professional development.” In a new white paperthe Endomind association highlights the difficulties that sick women have in working, and offers them solutions.
A higher level of stress
Indeed, 53% of women with endometriosis note a decrease in their ability to work and a decrease in power of concentration (60%). Added to this is a higher level of stress (58%), reduced physical and intellectual capacity to work (62%) or even demotivation (56%). Moreover, getting up in the morning is sometimes almost impossible for 62% of the women questioned. Absenteeism, due to pain, examinations, sick leave, is one of the consequences that the company must also face.
Consequently, many women with endometriosis see their “career development slowed down, suffered”, and suffer from “withdrawal, of a guilt of not being able to assume one’s work, and of a fear of being perceived as someone vulnerable, weak” note the experts in the white paper. In certain cases, “when the dialogue is not initiated, the impact of endometriosis can go as far as the termination of the contract, at the initiative of one or other of the parties”.
Request a therapeutic half-time
Faced with these situations, the white paper recommends that women with endometriosis meet with their occupational physician in order to adapt their position, to request therapeutic part-time work or recognition of the status of disabled worker, and possibly to consider a retraining, if the work is really incompatible with the professional activity.
Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting at least one in ten women of childbearing age. It is characterized most of the time by very intense pain during menstrual periods. Despite a large number of cases and recent media coverage, this disease is still too little known and diagnosed late, with an average delay of seven years in the appearance of the first symptoms. If a third of endometriosis stabilize easily and allow an almost normal life, there are cases where endometriosis will evolve into severe and disabling forms.
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