The rise of employer-paid egg freezing benefits
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In a recent piece for Time, Jessica Bennett looked at companies that cover egg freezing for their female employees.
An excerpt:
Egg freezing is also, of course, an issue of equality: a potential solution to the so-called myth of opting out. An equalizer among both gender - men don't usually worry about their sperm going bad, or at least not with quite the same intensity or cost - and class (the procedure has typically only been available for those who could afford it). The way egg freezing has worked so far, many women don't necessarily return to retrieve their eggs. Still others get pregnant naturally. And so, even though it's too soon to say how successful the procedure down the line will be -- for women who return, thaw, and begin the process of IVF -- it's almost like an insurance policy. An egalitarian "peace of mind."
Bennett joins The Daily Circuit to talk about how this benefits employees and companies.
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