We are so not there yet
(I think this is my first feminist rant of the New Year?)
In Silicon Valley ovum-freezing parties are all the rage as high-flying women rush to insure their future fertility: and apparently they're coming to the UK.
The horror. The horror. 'Attendees of her parties get 10 per cent off the cost of egg-freezing; party hosts pocket a “significant” discount.'
This is surely not an entirely simple procedure that can be fitted in during one's lunch-break like a hair appointment (involves several days of taking hormones in advance), plus - PLUS! - it's not a guaranteed solution to deferring having a baby.
Not to mention, COST: £5,000 for a cycle of egg-harvesting treatment (though more may be required), plus annual storage costs of £250, and as much as £6,000 for the eggs to be re-implanted.
This is not empowering. This is about enabling some women to do that essentially Angel in the House thing: Take Care of The Problem Themselves.
Rather than, you know, restructuring working lives and societal expectations to accommodate women's trajectories which are not necessarily those of men and not inferior.
In fact this resonated for me with this other article on how society is extremely grudging in enabling anything like a level playing-field for women: Long lines for women's restrooms are the result of a history that favors men’s bodies. This is, my dr rdrz will know, a topic upon which I have vented several times before.
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