Opinion

March 10, 2021

Do women really want their employers to freeze their eggs?

It’s all the rage in Silicon Valley — and it should be in Europe, too.


Emma Phillips

4 min read

Despite the fact I’m still in my prime at 32, and that the number of women waiting until their 30s to have children has been rising with each generation, as a woman I still don’t have the luxury to ‘wait and see’ if I can have kids when I (eventually) decide I want them. 

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