Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Frozen Eggs and Silicon Valley

Facebook and Apple are offering to pay up to 20 thousand dollars for female employees to freeze their eggs. Is this a great step forward for women juggling the demands of career and family? Or is it a hint suggesting that they can’t have it all -- at least not at the same time?

By Madeleine Brand • Oct 14, 2014 • 1 min read

Facebook and Apple are offering to pay up to 20 thousand dollars for female employees to freeze their eggs. Is this a great step forward for women juggling the demands of career and family? Or is it a hint suggesting that they can’t have it all -- at least not at the same time?

Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Andrew Walsh
Too Beautiful to Live
Christian Bordal
Managing Producer, Greater LA
Matt Holzman
Producer, 'The Document'
Sarah Eliabeth Richards
Science journalist and the author of “Motherhood, Rescheduled: The New Frontier of Egg Freezing and the Women Who Tried It.”

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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Frozen Eggs and Silicon Valley

Facebook and Apple are offering to pay up to 20 thousand dollars for female employees to freeze their eggs. Is this a great step forward for women juggling the demands of career and family? Or is it a hint suggesting that they can’t have it all -- at least not at the same time?

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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Frozen Eggs and Silicon Valley

Facebook and Apple are offering to pay up to 20 thousand dollars for female employees to freeze their eggs. Is this a great step forward for women juggling the demands of career and family? Or is it a hint suggesting that they can’t have it all -- at least not at the same time?

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