Apple and Facebook are now paying for women employees to freeze their eggs


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It sounds like a plot out of a Gattaca-like dystopian movie: giant corporations that pay for the women on their workforces to freeze their reproductive eggs, allowing them to spend more of their most fertile years at the office, delaying having children until later. Yet that's exactly what two of Silicon Valley's largest companies are doing in real life in an apparent bid to recruit more women talent, a laudable goal. Facebook and Apple will both cover the costs of egg-freezing procedures up to $20,000 for individual employees, according to NBC News. Facebook's employees were able to participate in the policy as of this year, while Apple's policy won't be available until early 2015, according to the report.

 

Egg freezing (technically called "oocyte cryopreservation") as an elective process is still a relatively new trend, first pioneered in humans in 1986. It is designed to allow a woman to attempt to have children past her most fertile years (20-35, according to Mayo Clinic). The process generally involves having a woman in her peak fertile years take hormones to produce more mature eggs than the one that would result naturally during her menstrual cycle, up to 45 eggs, according to the NYU Fertility Center. The mature eggs are then extracted or harvested in a procedure that takes 10 to 15 minutes under sedation, and the healthy eggs are then frozen in a fertility clinic and kept until a woman wants to have a child, up to 10 years, at which point they are unfrozen and fertilized with sperm, then re-implanted into a woman's uterus. The technology hasn't been very reliable and was until recently considered experimental. It is also expensive, costing around $10,000 per cycle or "round" of egg production, so the Facebook and Apple contributions could be extremely helpful for younger adult women who want this procedure.

 

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http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/14/6976295/apple-and-facebook-pay-women-employees-egg-freezing

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Raising a newborn child past the women primetime are much more difficult, you're older and thus more physically prone,

having less stamina allocated to care your child, and may pose problem providing breast milk, etc...

 

And how much Facebook and Apple gonna compensate for that?

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Arent there a sperm bank? donate there and order your own sperm when time comes? :p

 

I want $25k to have my sperm frozen too!

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Raising a newborn child past the women primetime are much more difficult, you're older and thus more physically prone,

having less stamina allocated to care your child, and may pose problem providing breast milk, etc...

 

And how much Facebook and Apple gonna compensate for that?

 

Personally I'd sooner every rabid feminist is sent the bill - honestly, when is this crap going to end that equality has to mean an equal 50/50 split in every job or otherwise there is a giant conspiracy theory against the women folk?

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