- Facebook and Apple pay the treatment for female employees who want to freeze their eggs.
- Vodafone has announced a global maternity policy which ensures 16 weeks full paid to mothers after giving birth, and will pay them 100% of their salary when coming back and working 30 hours per week.
I have clear which one is the way to go: Vodafone. I really think that Facebook and Apple will not help women as the message is clearly "don't you really want to focus on your career and postpone the decision of being mom?". But when is going to be the best moment? To be honest, there is never the "ideal moment" to be a mom if you are thinking in your career. So if your company is even offering you the possibility of postponing it, women may reconsider. It does not help. And it is a serious matter - older women have riskier pregnancies.
What it helps is if you work for a company willing to pay you a longer maternity leave and then helping you when you are back. That is encouraging. Go Vodafone!
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