Apple, Facebook to Pay for Female Employees to Freeze Their Eggs

http://mashable.com/2014/10/14/apple-facebook-egg-freezing/?utm_cid=mash-com-G+-main-link

by mlichtenstern • 12 years ago

2 5 12 years ago

Interesting, encouraging, and disturbing all at once... How about a more integrated work-life system? Like on-site daycare and private schools? Even clinics. I'm sure they could partner up and make room for it.

dkarapetyan2• 12 years ago

How is that any less disturbing? Certain things should be handled by the state because everyone involved needs to share the burden. Privatizing it is not the answer.

mlichtenstern3• 12 years ago

On site daycare and clinics disturbing? Why is it disturbing for parents to be in closer proximity to their children (e.g. Marissa Meyer, Shonda Rhimes, et al). I'm not an advocate of privatizing everything. I do believe that there can be effective symbiosis between the private and public sectors - creating mutual accountability.

For example, companies could be incentivized to provide such services on site. I'm a mom. If I were a tech employee (or any other kind of employee), I would prefer to drop my child(ren) off at an on-site facility, where I could spend lunch and breaks with them, and where there is an additional bonus of them getting to know other children of people I spend 1/3 of my day / life with. It's not as if people would be obligated to use the services, but I bet it would be valued above freezing eggs and serve many more people - male and female alike. Work Place 2.0

Apple, Facebook to Pay for Female Employees to Freeze Their Eggs

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