The shooting took place outside the entrance of the emergency room of the Methodist North Hospital at around 12.40 am Monday, according to local media reports.
Women going through menopause make up a significant proportion of a company's employee base. In the U.S., the median age of a woman in the workplace is about 42 years old, squarely within the range of perimenopause, when the earliest signs of menopause become noticeable.
There are myriad factors at work here, but it all comes down to problems common across women's health journeys: a lack of access to quality providers, misinformation about common courses of treatment, and stigma. The consequent high levels of individual suffering have major cost and talent implications for companies around the world.
Thousands of mental health workers in California are going on strike to demand that Kaiser Permanente, America's largest non-profit HMO, better provide "desperately needed" services.
Two thousand Kaiser Permanente therapists across Northern California began an indefinite strike this morning, protesting "unethical" working conditions that providers and patients say are putting vulnerable people at risk.