雙語新聞：蘋果公司為女員工出資冷凍卵子 也是醉了

雙語新聞：蘋果公司為女員工出資冷凍卵子 也是醉了

Facebook and Apple are offering women employees the chance to put their dreams of motherhood on ice – by paying for them to freeze their eggs.The extraordinary perk is aimed at boosting the number of women staff by allowing them to focus on their careers without sacrificing the opportunity to have children later in life.

據(jù)《每日郵報》報道，蘋果公司和Facebook出臺了新政策，為公司女員工出資冷凍卵子以了卻她們遲些做母親的夢想�；ㄙM這筆不菲的費用旨在吸引更多的女性人才，冷凍卵子可以讓女員工們專注于事業(yè)而又不耽誤她們遲些生寶寶。

The Silicon Valley giants – the first major employers to offer the procedure for non-medical reasons – are willing to pay £12,500 a time to cover the cost of putting the eggs on ice plus an additional £300-a-year for deep freeze storage.

這兩大硅谷科技巨頭公司提出愿意報銷卵子冷凍操作過程的一次性費用12,500英鎊（合12萬1714元）以及每年的深層冷凍存儲費用300英鎊（2921元）。這兩家公司可能是美國大企業(yè)當(dāng)中首批為出于非醫(yī)療原因冷凍卵子的女員工支付這一費用的。

The eggs can then be planted into the patient’s uterus at time of her choosing when she may no longer be producing them naturally. According to NBC News, Facebook has begun paying for egg freezing and Apple will start in January.

冷凍卵子后，女員工可以自行選擇時間提出卵子植入子宮，這樣即使她已不能自然排卵時也能懷孕。據(jù)美國全國廣播公司（NBC News）報道，F(xiàn)acebook最近已開始落實這一福利，蘋果則將于明年1月開始。

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Preserving eggs has been described as a key to ‘levelling the playing field’ in the male-dominated tech industry and a possible game-changer for women who have traditionally had to choose between their careers and starting a family at a time when their male counterparts are climbing the ladder. ‘Having a high-powered career and children is still a very hard thing to do,’ Brigitte Adams, an egg-freezing advocate and founder of the patient forum Eggsurance, told NBC.

冷凍卵子被稱作是“平衡男性主導(dǎo)的科技行業(yè)男女比例”的關(guān)鍵，也可能因此改寫以往的游戲規(guī)則：男性可以專注于事業(yè)，而同樣處于事業(yè)上升期的女性卻必須在事業(yè)和家庭之間選一個。“身居要職和當(dāng)一個好媽媽目前仍不能兩全，”布里吉特•亞當(dāng)斯（Brigitte Adams）這樣告訴NBC的記者，她是冷凍卵子計劃的支持者之一，也是美國“卵保”論壇（Eggsurance）的創(chuàng)始人。

‘By offering this benefit, companies are investing in women and supporting them in carving out the lives they want,’ she added.

“公司的這一福利是在為女員工投資，也是支持她們?nèi)プ穼ぷ约合胍�的生活�?rdquo;她補充道。

Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, in particular, is known for her pro-women stance.

Facebook的首席運營官雪莉•桑德伯格（Sheryl Sandberg）尤其以其女性主義立場著稱。

The social media firm gives new parents £3,000 in so-called ‘baby cash’ to spend however they like. Both firms also offer generous wellness-orientated benefits to staff.

這家社交媒體企業(yè)（Facebook）為初為父母的員工提供3000英鎊（合29240元）的“寶貝基金”隨他們使用。而蘋果和Facebook兩家公司都為員工設(shè)立了各種健康福利。

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Critics say the move is simply a ploy to persuade women to stay with the company.

評論家們稱兩大公司的這一舉動簡單來講就是為了留住女性人才的一個策略。

Last night an Apple source indicated the company had no plans to extend the policy to the firm’s UK workforce.

但昨晚從蘋果傳來消息稱公司目前并沒有計劃將這一政策推廣到英國部門。

An Apple spokesman in the US said: ‘We want to empower women at Apple to do the best work of their lives as they care for loved ones and raise their families.’

蘋果公司的美國發(fā)言人稱：“我們希望以此鼓勵蘋果的女員工們發(fā)揮最好的工作狀態(tài)，但同時又能兼顧愛人和家庭。”

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