Egg Freezing in IT Companies: Women Friendly or Inhumane ?

TechnoparkToday.com>> IT Employers have been giving suggestive incentives for foregoing their human needs or rights, latest one being incentives for female employees for freezing their eggs, Two top MNC’s namely Apple and Facebook have given shape to this scheme.

“Egg freezing” a costly practice, used in case of medical reasons which makes pregnancy a risky one is flaunted as an option now!!. Eggs will be stored in liquefied nitrogen, later to be retrieved and used for pregnancy.

Many female employees are finding, IT a bad job option as many finds it difficult to balance work and life. For mothers, it is really had to feed their offspring’s with their own milk as they work away from home.

IT companies who often, talk about their employee rights – innocently turn as violators as they deny enough maternity leaves and Baby care options. There are laws, which mandate companies to provide baby care options, but very few render an ear. As a result, there are cases where people make a “choice” of no-child life. The emotional and social problems of such “choices” are multifold.

Human right violations or suggestive for the same need to be viewed, very seriously. Companies are interfering the nation’s progress as the children are assets of any nation, Bringing up a healthy next generation should be given the first priority to profits or career.  “Job as the sole first choice” should be altered by interventions like laws which mandate 6 months maternity leave and more work –from – home/ half-work-half pay options for working mothers up to 3 years of child birth

Governments should take steps so that “egg freezing” kind of suggestive interventions are not made by companies, in the life of employees.

-Anoop Varghese Kuriappuram