Emily Lake
Might be a replicant
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You know that some women actually want to have a career of their own right, and aren't just forced into it because they can't stay home and raise babies?We are a society that pretends to honor the family and home life, but in reality we are a society infected with mortgages and rents of all types that require too much income. This makes employment for women in many cases mandatory if they do not want to appear on the welfare roles. Freezing eggs is not the answer. They should have more generous forms of leave for women to raise their children, not just have them.
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\The truth is that it doesn't affect a man's performance in the same way. This is a cultural and societal gender role that hasn't shifted yet... if it ever does. Women are still the primary caregivers for children. When both parents work, it still ends up being the female that puts the children's needs before the needs of her career, while the man puts the needs of the career first. If the child is sick, it nearly always ends up being the mother who stays home. If there's a project that needs to be completed, and a kid that needs to be picked up, the mother will usually end up choosing the child where the father will choose the project. Perhaps some day that will change, but right now that's how it is.
That may be generally true, but it is not specifically true. So, it's not the company's place to decide the particular roles in their employees' marriages, but by not offering it to the male employees they are not allowing for the possible, but probably rare as you point out, case of a heavily involved father, whose work performance will be affected by having a child at home.
Except that men continue to produce sperm indefinitely; women have a limited supply of eggs. There's no need to freeze sperm.