NEW YORK -- Gail Sheehy, author of The Silent Passage and New Passages, will participate in a breakfast seminar on menopause in the workplace Thursday, May 22, from 8 to 11 a.m. at the Harvard Club, 27 West 44th Street.

The seminar, sponsored by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and its Institute for Women and Work and the Human Resources Program, also will feature presentations by Dr. Patricia Allen, an obstetrician and gynecologist affiliated with the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and director of the New York Menopause Center, and Dr. Ellen McGrath, executive director of the Psychology Centers in New York City and Laguna Beach, Calif., and author of When Feeling Good is Bad.

Statistics show that for 10 to 15 percent of women, menopause is totally disruptive to their lives, both on and off the job. Yet few workplaces have formally addressed the ways in which menopause can affect working women and interferes with individual and team morale and productivity.

According to organizers, the seminar will:

• educate women on current research on treating symptomatic menopause and its implications for the workplace;
• dispel menopause myths;
• discuss implications of menopause and stress in employment discrimination cases; and
• provide tips for training or education programs.