So that women can really take off professionally, employers pay now supposedly for the freezing of oocytes.

Only the career and then the child – that is thinking more and more women. Therefore, it is not unusual nowadays that women only mid 30 or later for the first time become a mother. However, with increasing age fall the chances of a natural pregnancy.

For women to be able to meet the career and the late fertility, the companies Facebook and Apple now engage allegedly disputed funds. Employees of both companies reported on demand of the U.S. NBC broadcasts that their company would be the social Freezing, so the freezing of oocytes pay, they can to the becoming pregnant. Thus, Facebook and Apple do not allow entirely altruistic, to concentrate only on their career women. The desire to have children they can then meet thanks to the frozen eggs at a later date.

According to the Facebook employees have already started to reimbursement of up to $ 20,000 after all, Apple would follow suit from next year. The aim of the two IT giants: They want to make their companies more attractive for women and increase women’s quota.

The demand for social Freezing has risen sharply in recent years. Especially for women who (for example, cancer) can not be pregnant because of illness, the new method is helpful. Because they do not have to forgo having children. But also all other women provides the social Freezing the opportunity to choose the time of childbirth itself.

The method is controversial. In many countries will discuss the ethical acceptability of social freezing, particularly in terms of age and up to what point the artificial insemination should be allowed by law.