The ‘menopause penalty’: Many women in midlife see a drop in wages, new study finds

Women already make just 84 cents to a man’s dollar. They also face additional earnings losses, should they become mothers, in the form of what’s been called the “child penalty"—with recent findings indicating a loss up to $500,000 over a 30-year career.

Now comes a study asserting that women experience yet another drop in earnings at the end of their child-bearing years, and researchers have dubbed it the “menopause penalty.”

Economists at the University College London, University of Bergen...