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Sheryl Sandberg Explains Why Facebook Covers Egg-Freezing



Original Article: http://time.com/3835233/sheryl-sandberg-explains-why-facebook-covers-egg-freezing/
by Charlotte Alter



"I talked about it with our head of HR, and said, 'God we should cover this'"

A Facebook employee with cancer inspired COO Sheryl Sandberg to create the company’s controversial egg-freezing policy, Sandberg said in an interview released Friday.

In a Bloomberg Television interview with Emily Chang, Sandberg explained the genesis of the policy that gives employees money to get their eggs frozen in order to delay childbirth.

“There’s a young woman working at Facebook who had got cancer, and I knew her and she came to me and said, ‘I’m going to go through the treatment, and that means I won’t be able to have children unless I can freeze my eggs, and I can’t afford it, but our medical care doesn’t cover it,'” Sandberg explained. “I talked about it with our head of HR, and said, ‘God we should cover this.’ And then we looked at each other and said, ‘Why would we only cover this for women with cancer, why wouldn’t we cover this more broadly?'”


Egg-freezing has been widely used to help women with cancer preserve their fertility after chemotherapy, but it’s increasingly being used by women who want to delay motherhood for non-medical reasons, like if they haven’t found the right partner or they want to focus on work. When Facebook and Apple announced in November that they would cover elective egg-freezing for their employees, some critics attacked the policies, saying the companies were essentially encouraging women to delay motherhood until it’s convenient for the company.

Virgin CEO Richard Branson doesn’t agree. “We at Virgin want to steal the idea and offer it to our women,” he told Bloomberg in the same interview. “Somebody said to me they got criticism…and I said, ‘How can anybody criticize them for doing that? It’s women’s choice.

He has a personal reason for supporting egg-freezing policies. “My daughter just had two wonderful twins from eggs, and they wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for the eggs,” he said.




Sheryl Sandberg:
She is an American technology executive, activist, and author. She is the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook. In June 2012, she was elected to the board of directors by the existing board members becoming the first woman to serve on Facebook's board. Before Facebook, Sandberg was Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, and was involved in launching Google's philanthropic arm Google.org. Before Google, Sandberg served as chief of staff for the United States Secretary of the Treasury.

In 2012 she was named in the Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world according to Time magazine. As of January 2014, Sandberg is reported to be worth over US$1 billion, due to her stock holdings in Facebook and other companies.

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Exam
Cost
Item
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Hormone test
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Treatment (e.g. polyps)
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Item
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Ultrasound
Medication of triggering
~NTD 40,000
Ultrasound
Medication of stimulation
Insemination
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Hormone test
Ultrasound
Medication of stimulation
Oocyte retrieval
Standard insemination/ICSI
Embryo culture
Embryo freezing
Embryo transfer
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Sperm bank
IVF program (for yourself)
Embryo transfer
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Oocyte bank
IVF program (for donor)
Embryo transfer
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Contract signing (fixed)
Medication of stimulation
Oocyte retrieval
Storage (annual)
Sperm freezing
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Semen analysis
Hormone test
Storage (annual)


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Phone/Mail contact
Processing documents
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Linkage analysis
~NTD 45,000
Autoimmune Evaluation
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