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Facebook, Apple Now Paying for Female Employees to Freeze their Eggs Cryonically

Thursday, October 16, 2014 15:02

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Facebook and Apple have become two of the first major companies to offer an interesting perk for female employees: Egg freezing. Since January this year, women at Facebook have had the option of having their eggs harvested and frozen, for future in-vitro fertilization (IVF) — and from January 2015, women at Apple will be granted the same benefit. Is this just the next phase in the Silicon Valley “perks arms race,” or, from a more cynical perspective, is it just a way to keep female employees focused on the prize? In any case, if egg freezing takes off in a big way, then we are probably looking at one of the greatest boosts for equality in the workplace: Instead of jettisoning their careers in favor of babymaking, women will be more inclined to stick it out. Hopefully, this will mean larger numbers of women in high-power positions, both in the corporate world and elsewhere.

Egg freezing — or oocyte cryopreservation to give its medical name — is a procedure that allows a woman to put aside some of her limited supply of eggs. The process generally involves hormone injections to stimulate the ovaries to produce multiple eggs, and then harvesting and cryonic freezing of those eggs. Like cryopreserved sperm, the eggs can be kept for a long time. Eventually, if the woman decides to use her eggs to get pregnant, they are fertilized in a test tube and implanted into the womb (IVF). The process isn’t cheap (around $10,000 for a single batch of hormones and harvesting), and keeping the eggs frozen costs a few hundred dollars per year. So far, from the limited amount of research carried out on frozen eggs and the resultant babies, there doesn’t appear to be an increase in birth defects or other chromosomal abnormalities.

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Banderman

Gender equality? What a pathetic sham. What does anyone do for men? Absolutely nothing. Oh, wait, they do one thing; the discriminate against them.

Oct 16, 2014, 3:27 pm 0 Reply

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