In fact, this bias may be influencing biochemistry. Several anthropological studies suggest that the experience of menopause is indeed culture-specific. Generally speaking, men and women develop on almost opposite tracks with regard to their relationship with self, family and the world. The earlier part of a woman's development is more focused on the internal emotional processes, the development of relationship with self, intimates and the creation of family. The development of relationship to the community at large, the world, achievement and power comes at mid-life and thereafter.
Women have more female hormones earlier in life.
Conversely men tend to be focused outward to community, achievement and their relationship with the world in the early part of life. At mid-life they tend to look inward, toward self, intimates and hearth. We have to consider in treating the menopausal woman just whom are we treating. It is important for practitioners to remember that while we cannot escape our cultural bias, but we can be more conscious of the particularities of that bias. The information provided is not a substitute for a professional medical opinion.