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

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

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/apple-facebook-pay-female-employees-freeze-eggs-204824013--finance.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/5eC20J2KH5dNfQVrM7EfZg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-10-14T212507Z_1006990003_LYNXNPEA9D10B_RTROPTP_2_CTECH-US-TECH-FERTILITY.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Mark Zuckerberg during a Facebook press event to introduce 'Home' a Facebook app suite that integrates with Android in Menlo Park" align="left" title="Mark Zuckerberg during a Facebook press event to introduce 'Home' a Facebook app suite that integrates with Android in Menlo Park" border="0" /></a>By Christina Farr SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc and Facebook Inc will help pay for female employees to freeze their eggs, signaling a willingness to spend on perks and benefits in a race to acquire top-flight talent. From January, Apple will pay both full- and part-time employees up to $20,000 for procedure and storage costs for female employees to freeze their eggs. &quot;We continue to expand our benefits for women, with a new extended maternity leave policy, along with cryopreservation and egg storage as part of our extensive support for infertility treatments,&quot; Apple said in a statement. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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