New research from Monash University suggests that while employee-sponsored egg freezing could be a windfall for working women’s career options, there are important unintended outcomes to consider.
[W]hile some participants saw the potential for employer-sponsored egg freezing to increase and support women’s reproductive and career options, the researchers noted, “others were concerned it could pressure women to delay childbearing, reinforce the career versus family dichotomy and exacerbate existing inequities in access to assisted reproductive technologies.
Employer-sponsored egg freezing was introduced in the US in 2014 via Silicon Valley corporate giants Apple and Facebook, Ms Johnston noted, with around one in five large US companies having followed the lead of Apple and Facebook and now offer female employees financial support to access egg freezing, with predictions Australia could follow suit.
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Source: Should egg freezing be an employee benefit for lawyers? – Lawyers Weekly