ABSTRACT
Science continues to progress. In the last few decades scientists have learned that sex and gender are important determinants not only of personal psychology and social positions in life, but also in understanding diseases, their course and outcome, and their prevention and treatment. Many scientists, e.g. gynecologists, gynecologic endocrinologists and their societies, have the privilege of assisting women in the existential problems of their lives, and are endeavoring to deal more competently with the special conditions of women in health and disease, helping them to solve their health problems by basic research and by converting the results into successful practical management. Menopause societies, dealing with the successive phases of menopause, postmenopause and senium, have their particular justification by the normal early cessation of ovarian function in women and the resulting sequelae of fate-determining, but partially preventable, diseases.
