<\/a>Apple will soon join Facebook in covering the costs associated witih egg-freezing for female employees<\/a>, even for non-medical reasons.<\/p>\n

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Starting in January 2015, Apple will join Facebook in covering the cost of egg freezing for female employees, hypothetically allowing them to work further into their childbearing years with less fear of reduced fertility. As NBC News<\/a> reports, although many employers cover eggfreezing for women who are about to undergo chemotherapy, Apple and Facebook will be the first major firms to cover the technique for elective use. The firms will each offer $20,000 in coverage, enough for two harvesting rounds per employee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201c\u2018Having a high-powered career and children is still a very hard thing to do,\u2019 says Brigitte Adams, an egg-freezing advocate and founder of the patient forum Eggsurance.com.\u201dBut don\u2019t worry, that only applies to women.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adams told MSNBC that when companies pay for their employees to freeze their eggs, they are \u201cinvesting in women\u201d by giving them the opportunity to have a career now and a family later. Supposedly, this will then allow women to compete better in largely male-dominated fields because they will not be concerned with their children. Philip Chenette, a fertility specialist in San Francisco, views \u201ccovering egg freezing… as a type of \u2018payback\u2019 for women\u2019s commitment\u201d to their careers.<\/p>\n

It is the 21st century and we\u2019re still talking about how women can balance careers and families… but not men. Grr. I mean, yes, it\u2019s hard. Being a parent is a \u201csecond shift,\u201d and yes, it\u2019s absolutely exhausting, but when I say parent, I mean parent, not just mom.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s just that it\u2019s easier for men to have children throughout their lives, whereas women go through menopause, but it\u2019s not like the actual act of child-rearing gets any easier as you age. It probably gets harder. And yet men haven\u2019t been included in this conversation of balancing work and family life. Remember all that feminist outrage when Matt Lauer asked the GM CEO how she managed the balance, without considering he pulled it off just fine? Well, it\u2019s still valid today. Somehow we manage to progress without progressing. If men can do it, \u201cwe can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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