Apple, Facebook To Pay For Female Employees' Freezing of Eggs; Aim to Retain, Attract Female Talents

Apple, Facebook To Pay For Female Employees' Freezing of Eggs; Aim to Retain, Attract Female Talents

Technology is a world that is evidently dominated by Adam's descendants. Most, if not all, of tech-giants are founded by brilliant men who risked and stepped-up to create technological revolutions. Apple and Facebook are one of the companies with male founders. Apple has Steve Jobs and Facebook has Mark Zuckerberg.

But as call for equality between man and woman in workplace heats up again, the giants of Silicon Valley will now aim to attract and retain their female talents by paying for a woman's 'game-changing perk'. NBC News reported that Apple and Facebook pays and will be funding the freezing of eggs of their female employees.

The social media company has recently begun the said perk while Apple will be starting to pay their woman employees on January next year. A fertility specialist in San Franciso, Philip Chenette, said that covering the employees' egg freezing can more likely be an edge for the two tech-companies.

Apple and Facebook efforts "can be viewed as a type of payback for women's commitment" according to Chenette. This step can give the two firms more chances of getting high-caliber female talents and retaining their current excellent roster of employees.

Business Standard also reported that "the move would give women the flexibility to put their fertility on hold while they focus on moving up in their careers." Employees that will be offered with the monetary support will be given assurance that they can still conceive at any age that they want.

It is known that working in a tech-company which continuously tries to invent and create something new is indeed a stressing job. Thus, women can either choose to have a blossoming career in a demanding workplace and to stop working and be a mother because it will be hard to find the balance between career and motherhood.

Egg freezing procedure can be the aide for this female dilemma. This is why Apple and Facebook initiated the move of supporting such process for their employees which cost $10,000 each round plus $500 or more annually for storage. The ideal number of eggs to be frozen is 20 per each woman. This number requires two rounds of the procedure.

The procedure is not a hundred percent guarantee of a woman's pregnancy but positive results have been increasing according to CNN. A professor of a fertility center said that egg freezing gained popularity during the last several years. Because of the 'surge' in demand, it is not already labeled as an 'experimental' process.

Age is a determining but not sole factor for the process' success. A fertility expert said that women with the age lower than 35 has more chances, 40-50 percent, of being pregnant through her frozen eggs. Although the medical procedure is a safe and effective way to have a child at their desired time, experts are not totally in favor of delaying pregnancy.

But as women are now vying for equality in the workplace, more and more females choose to conceive later in their lives in order to have a productive career, especially in male-dominated companies like Apple and Facebook.

Apple and Facebook statistics both showed that 70 percent of their thousands of employees are male.

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