NEW YORK: Free lunches, dry cleaning, massages — frozen eggs?
Silicon Valley's biggest companies have long offered cushy perks to attract top talent and keep workers happy logging scores of hours
on the job.
But beyond day-to-day luxuries,
Facebook and Apple will now give up to $20,000 in benefits to help employees pay for infertility treatments, sperm donors and even to freeze their eggs.
The move comes amid stiff competition for skilled engineers, and as many of the biggest firms try to diversify their male-dominated ranks to include and
appeal to more women.
"Anything that gives women more control over the timing of fertility is going to be helpful to professional women," said Shelley
Correll, a sociology professor and director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at.Stanford University.
"It potentially addresses the conflicts between the biological clock and the clockwork of women's careers: The time that's most important in work, for getting
your career established, often coincides with normal fertility time for women.
This can potentially help resolve that by pushing women's fertility into the future."
Read more at : http://m.timesofindia.com/tech/tech-news/Apple-Facebook-will-pay-for-female-employees-to-freeze-their-eggs/articleshow/44820796.cms
Silicon Valley's biggest companies have long offered cushy perks to attract top talent and keep workers happy logging scores of hours
on the job.
But beyond day-to-day luxuries,
Facebook and Apple will now give up to $20,000 in benefits to help employees pay for infertility treatments, sperm donors and even to freeze their eggs.
The move comes amid stiff competition for skilled engineers, and as many of the biggest firms try to diversify their male-dominated ranks to include and
appeal to more women.
"Anything that gives women more control over the timing of fertility is going to be helpful to professional women," said Shelley
Correll, a sociology professor and director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at.Stanford University.
"It potentially addresses the conflicts between the biological clock and the clockwork of women's careers: The time that's most important in work, for getting
your career established, often coincides with normal fertility time for women.
This can potentially help resolve that by pushing women's fertility into the future."
Read more at : http://m.timesofindia.com/tech/tech-news/Apple-Facebook-will-pay-for-female-employees-to-freeze-their-eggs/articleshow/44820796.cms
