Sitting in front of a ­microphone, donning bright-pink glasses, Lori Urso proceeded to educate a room of mostly men about a topic most don’t talk about – menopause. “Now look, this is an awkward conversation,” Urso, a Democrat state senator representing Pawtucket, said before the Senate Committee on Labor at the Statehouse in March. “Menopause Already a Subscriber? Log in

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