What a crock. Heavy emphasis on crock.
I read that tech giants Apple and Facebook have offered to cover the cost of their female workers to freeze their eggs and postpone pregnancy so they can extend their work life. How big of them.
And this is supposed to be a good thing for the women?
How dare corporate America even begin to proffer this as an option? The thought is so heinous it renders me speechless.
Big business never fails to surprise me with its ruthlessness, but this goes way beyond the bounds of indecency even for it.
This BS method of manipulating female workers in this manner is tantamount to criminal.
Female employees have a hard enough time juggling work and parenting, often times sacrificing time with their children for the sake of the job. And now they have this conundrum to contemplate: “To freeze or not to freeze, that is the question.”
Tech companies have no sense of propriety. This is just another display of their unmitigated chutzpah to manipulate and force themselves into the bedrooms of their employees and put women in a position of subserviency. And I thought Hobby Lobby had a lot of nerve. SMH — this really takes the cake.
For the sake of giving these corporations the benefit of the doubt, I’m asking the gods of industry this question: “When exactly is it a good time to unfreeze those eggs and have a child? When the woman is 40, 50, or 60 years old? When she is no longer wanted or needed in the workforce and has out-lived her usefulness, then the little woman can go home, take a whole bunch of fertility shots to get her uterus in child bearing shape and defrost a child? Is that a good time?”
Isn’t it magnanimous for the CEO’s to allow a woman to decide. I’m so sure every female employee is saying to herself at this “gift” from Apple and Facebook “This a great — I can’t wait to freeze my eggs, so that when I’m so passed menopause, I can unfreeze my eggs, have a baby, and spend my retirement funds on diapers, formula and onesies.”
Adding, “Thanks Facebook, thanks Apple, for allowing me to postpone my body’s natural rhythms and to stay in my job and be a slave to the corporation.”
Sounds good to me, how about you?
Lets face it the only benefit of a female employee freezing her eggs and postponing child bearing is a benefit for the corporation, not the woman.
Not for Nuthin™, but If these titans of gigabytes want to improve the lives of their female workers, then provide better pre-natal benefits, provide longer maternity leave, affordable on-premise day care options, flexible work schedules, and remote access from home so that when baby is sick or needs mama, mama can stay home and be a mama. Now these would be improvements that would benefit female employees.
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