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A Dalhousie University professor is discouraging career-minded women from freezing their eggs for lifestyle reasons, a practice known as 'social egg freezing.
Françoise Baylis, a professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and Philosophy at Dalhousie University in Halifax, is giving a lecture Thursday at the University of Windsor entitled, "Ladies, don’t freeze your eggs."
For Baylis, it’s not just a matter of practical considerations associated with health or cost.
"We’re taking a social problem. We’re offering a medical solution," said Baylis. "Why is it a woman has to choose between a career and family? We don’t make men make that choice."
Baylis said freezing eggs entrenches the false belief that women cannot be good mothers and good employees at the same time.
"We’re living in a world where we say women can have it all and here’s a great strategy for that," she said. "Why is the challenge a biological one and not a social one?"
She said women have become a force in the workplace, which is a "relatively recent phenomenon." The workplace has not caught up to...