To shine or to endure? That is the question. We women, used to being in the world to care, to please, to be seen, find it hard to fight to move forward without limits or conditions. There are so many obstacles along the way that we often simply give up on our wish to reach the top professionally and settle for being the best at everything else. Superwoman syndrome takes hold of us and turns us into a trap for ourselves.

We have grown up dreading the arrival of this moment. We were told that menopause is the beginning of the end, a decline, a loss. But if we look at it through different eyes, or if instead of seeing it as a goodbye we embrace it as a threshold to a new way of being a woman, we may find a time of fulfilment, wisdom and inner comfort.

Adela Cortina said that what is not named does not cease to exist; rather, it is not seen, it is ignored and it is hidden, but it certainly does exist.

The 1920s were a decisive decade for women in law, customs and culture. They marked a turning point compared with the whole of the millennia of history that came before.