Mariella Frostrup's menopause mandate: 'The more I found out, the more infuriated I became'

Ahead of her appearance at the Menopause Summit in Cork, Suzanne Harrington meets Mariella Frostrup to discuss the ‘extreme injustice’ of women’s health and what needs to change

Mariella Frostrup: "Menopause is just one hurdle — there are so many others we have to push at". Photo: Kate Martin

Mariella Frostrup is on a crusade. She’s “animated by what felt like an extreme injustice.”

She’s referring to menopause, and how women have, until five minutes ago, been left to navigate it alone and unsupported. Having spent her “whole life campaigning for women’s emancipation,” she realised that even talking about the M-word was considered a “seditious activity”.