Release date: 2014-11-17
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Recently, US technology giants Apple and Facebook have made it possible for female employees to eliminate these concerns and work with peace of mind to launch a new “welfareâ€: reimbursing female employees for the cost of freezing and storing eggs. Up to $20,000. It is reported that "Facebook" company has begun to implement this new system, and Apple will begin implementation in January next year.
Although some American companies have previously reimbursed female employees for the cost of egg freezing, they are limited to those who suffer from cancer and need to freeze their eggs before receiving chemotherapy. This is a "frozen egg" for healthy female employees. Welfare is the first one.
Frozen eggs should lock youth early
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of American women between the ages of 40 and 44 who have had their first child has doubled in the past 20 years. As more and more women choose late marriage and late childbearing, the number of women who have frozen eggs in the United States has grown exponentially.
Dr. Gad Lavy, founder and medical director of New England Fertility Agency (NewEnglandFertility), said in an interview with a reporter from China Business News that the patients receiving the disease were simply frozen. The number of patients in need of future needs accounts for about 10% of the total number of patients who come to see the doctor, but this proportion is increasing year by year. Most women who used to freeze eggs in the past were suffering from diseases and needed to freeze eggs before chemotherapy or radiotherapy. But nowadays, more and more single women have joined the ranks of egg freezing.
Anne (a pseudonym) is a 38-year-old white woman. She told reporters that she did not have the problem of infertility. It was just because she was almost 40 years old and still did not meet the right person, so she decided to freeze her eggs and wait. In the future, I met Ruyi Langjun and thawed the child again.
Wang Lina (pseudonym), 28, is a Chinese working in a Chinese restaurant in New York. She told reporters that few girls will consider frozen eggs at her age, but she suffers from birth defects without uterus, and her marriage prospects are worrying. Instead of waiting for the other half to appear, it is better to freeze the egg first, and then wait for him to appear, then find another way to have a child. Fortunately, although she has no uterus, her ovarian function is still normal and she can take eggs by surgery.
Levi said that the female egg is the best quality when it is 20 to 30 years old. The 35-year-old is like a watershed of birth. Once it is missed, it is like riding a roller coaster, falling straight, and every year, the egg will accelerate aging. Therefore, young women who have no fertility in the near future often do not need to rush to freeze their eggs. However, if they are over 35 years old, they are still waiting for the women in the list, so they can plan ahead and use modern medicine to freeze their eggs in time. He pointed out that the age of frozen eggs in women can be between 35 and 38 years old, and later, it may affect the quality of the eggs. And some women are still single when they are not confused, only to think of freezing their eggs, it is too late. But for women with a family history of premature ovarian failure (PrematureovarianFailure) and premature Menopause (Premature Menopause), they may need to "snow" their eggs when they are 20 years old.
Advanced medical technology achievements, separated baby
From a medical point of view, the patient's entire cycle from taking birth control pills to taking out eggs is usually more than a month. At present, most medical institutions in the United States use Vitrification technology, which has matured since 2006. Compared with the old freezing technology, vitrification freezes, because it cools rapidly, does not form crystals, and hardly damages cells, so it has higher survival rate and success rate. After the frozen egg is placed in liquid nitrogen at 196 degrees Celsius, it is officially "snow" by the medical institution until the patient prepares the child, then thawed it, and combines it with the sperm in the laboratory. After the embryo is replanted back into the mother, the pregnancy begins.
When asked by reporters, will babies born by freezing eggs for many years cause neonatal defects because they have been refrigerated for many years? Levi gave a negative answer. He said that egg freezing does not bring any changes to the gene. Based on his many years of clinical experience, there is no difference between a baby born by freezing eggs and a baby born naturally. On the contrary, because frozen eggs must be in vitro fertilized. To achieve conception, in the future, after the thawed eggs are inseminated and formed into embryos, genetic tests can be carried out in the laboratory to check whether the 23 pairs of chromosomes are normal, thus confirming whether the embryos are normal. It is better to determine whether the fetus is from the source than natural pregnancy. Health, with or without genetic defects.
Can fish and bear's paws have both?
Apple said in a statement: "We continue to increase the benefits for female employees, including the new maternity leave policy, and as part of the measure to support the treatment of infertility, we reimburse the cost of freezing and storing eggs." According to this statement, Apple intends to let its female employees work while taking care of the family.
Facebook is also unwilling to lag behind, and its chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, also strongly urges prospective parents to launch the benefits and mobilize the enthusiasm of female employees to make them male-dominated. There is no need to be embarrassed in the high-tech industry to choose a family or a career.
Citing statistics from the US government, about one-third of women aged 35-39 in the United States have fertility difficulties, and among women aged 40-44, this percentage has soared to 64%. Rene Almeling, a professor of sociology at Yale University who specializes in gender and religious studies, says that today, more and more couples choose to have a late child, and in the past few years, the age of women’s first child has continued. increase. People always make various reasons to convince themselves before they are ready to have children, but as they get older, the probability of infertility between parents increases quietly. When women are 40 years old, their fertility will drop suddenly. Not only that, but recent research shows that older fathers also increase the chances of bringing genetic defects to the next generation. Both men and women have a biological clock for fertility, so it is especially important for couples who work in the workplace to plan their children before their biological clock rings.
The golden period of female fertility coincides with the rise of their careers, which can be described as a difficult family career. According to the University of Denver report, the proportion of women in leadership positions in the US is less than 20%, while the percentage of women who are CEOs in Fortune 500 companies has plummeted to 5%.
The root cause of these data is not that the number of women in the workplace is less than that of men, and that the proportion of women who have college degrees is lower than that of men, but many American companies are more likely to be tired of their families when they are recruiting. For recruiting men. As a result, Apple and Facebook's new benefits have met the needs of many career women and added to the recruitment of more women.
The proportion of female employees in Silicon Valley companies has always been low, and it has been criticized by the outside world. According to Agence France-Presse, Google’s female employees account for 30%, Microsoft’s 29%, “Facebook†31%, and its technical position as female employees to 15%.
The benefits of Apple and Facebook may provide a new option for professional women who are not considering giving birth, and also add weight to their female employees, but freezing eggs is really like giving birth to themselves. Is it insurance?
Levi said that whether the frozen eggs can be used to produce seeds in the future depends on the number and quality of the eggs. In general, the younger the egg, the better the quality of the egg, and at least 10 eggs must be preserved in order to be less stretched in the future.
The original intention of welfare is questioned
An obstetrician who did not want to be named pointed out that if more companies introduce similar measures, will they send a signal to women to postpone birth and focus on development, thus running counter to the original intention of the welfare?
The company's distribution of benefits should aim at helping employees balance work and family life, so that employees with children enjoy a flexible system rather than encouraging employees to delay childbearing. In an interview with this reporter, Alai Milin said that freezing eggs is like delaying the birth stress facing today to tomorrow. Instead of doing so, it is better to implement better policies and let employees balance their families and work.
Some opponents even suggested that the company should not invest 20,000 US dollars for frozen eggs in the cost of hiring full-time care infants and nannies, or simply invest money to build a free nursery (Daycare) within the company. The use of employees' children, so that the workplace women are freed from family chores, so that they can put more energy into their careers, and exclude the suspicion of encouraging female employees to delay childbearing, can be described as one fell swoop.
Sabrina Parsons, chief executive of Palo Alto Software, said she faced the same problem when she gave birth to her first child, and she didn't want to alienate her children. I don't want to give up work because at the time, the company was at a critical turning point. She simply brought her three children to work in the company when she was born, which allowed her to take care of her children's feelings without delaying her work. Later, she implemented this policy in the company, allowing all employees to bring preschool children to the company to work, in order to relieve the worries of parents in the workplace. For older children, the company has also set up an office as a night care and children's playground for children.
Parsons believes that only when American companies implement similar humanization policies will they fundamentally help women in the workplace to balance their careers and families and overcome professional bottlenecks. The welfare of frozen eggs is like drinking and quenching thirst. When women are married and have children during their career rise, they will still have serious concerns and cannot solve the problem of gender inequality fundamentally.
Source: First Financial Daily
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