Facebook and Apple have decided to cover female employees for their egg freezing.
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The social media giant has already began covering employees for non-medical reasons while Apple will start at the beginning of next year, NBC News reported. The companies covering these reproductive expenses will save women workers thousands of dollars: typical egg freezing totals around $10,000 per round plus hundreds more for annual storage.
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“Having a high-powered career and children is still a very hard thing to do,” Brigitte Adams, an egg-freezing advocate and founder of Eggsurance.com