Facebook and Apple will pay for female employees to freeze their eggs

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last updated 8 January 2015

Maybe women can have it all?

That's the message Apple and Facebook are sending their female employees, offering them financial assistance to freeze their eggs, which would theoretically allow them to get pregnant at a later age. The perk is being billed as a way for women to focus on their careers without the biological pressure to bear children, and is part of a growing "perk arms race" to attract and retain top female talent in Silicon Valley.