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Abstract: Women's perception of menopause is influenced by various factors including cultural, sociocultural factors can affect women's attitude, perception and experience towards menopause. Experiencing the symptoms of menopause is individual and depends on the influence of many factors, not just hormonal changes, but also external factors, e.g., living conditions, general health, social functioning and the perception of ageing. These factors interact, strengthening and weakening, affecting the perception and quality of life among menopausal women. Objectives:1. To assess the perception of women related to menopause. 2. To assess the quality of life regarding menopause among women.3.To find the correlation between perception and quality of life of menopausal women. Methods and material: A descriptive cross-sectional study design was used in this study. A purposive sampling technique was used to select 140 menopausal women. Data were collected through two tools that includes: menopausal perception and Menopausal Quality of Life. Results: The findings of the study were, that the majority of the samples 78 (55.71%) were having negative level of perception on menopause whereas 62 (44.28%) were having positive perception on menopause among women, it also depicted that mean score of perception on menopause was 11.55 with SD 4.80.The study also proved that the majority of the samples 77(55%) were having average level of menopausal quality of life, 39(27.85%) were having poor and 24(17.14%) were having good menopausal quality of life among women, it also depicted that mean score on quality of life on menopause was 48.03 with SD 16.92. Conclusion: Hence this study strongly recommends that the development and implementation of training and health education program for premenopausal and menopausal women is essential and also further researches is required.