Hot New Having It All Tip: Just Be Rich Enough to Freeze Your Eggs!
By Erin Gloria Ryan,
Jezebel
| 04. 17. 2014
This cover of this week's Bloomberg Businessweek features a confident-looking white woman in her thirties and the seductive headline FREEZE YOUR EGGS FREE YOUR CAREER. Is it already that time during the year when magazines invite America to comment on reproductive and parenting choices that are only available to a tiny segment of very wealthy women again? Time flies!
Move over breastfeeding TIME cover mom, pregnant silver-haired lady, mean businessmommy failing to have it all, champagne sipping single lady not trying even halfway hard to catch the bouquet. The new hotness is power suit wearing blonde lady standing confidently, unencumbered by the constant crazymaking ticking of the biological clock that plagues the rest of us because: she's just frozen her eggs.
Fertility preservation, as the kids are calling it nowadays, is the future of women's career advancement, says Bloomberg writer and editor Emma Rosenblum. But, like most trendpieces about options only rich people can afford, There Are Some Problems With This Piece.
Rosenblum cites some compelling stats to back up her claim that egg freezing is the future. The...
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