This response highlights exactly what I was thinking but leaves out a question I was asking myself. The original author appears to be angry that they are offeri

This response highlights exactly what I was thinking but leaves out a question I was asking myself. The original author appears to be angry that they are offering this benefit. How did this benefit come about though? My guess, for what it's worth, is that some women working at Facebook or Google were driven enough (perhaps to a fault) that they were willing to go to extremes to ensure they could work now and focus on a family later. How would it have played out if a particularly vocal employee asked for this benefit and was rejected? New headline, "Facebook says, 'Female Employees Must Choose between Eggs or Career'" Damned if you do and damn if you don't. Facebook and Google are giving them the freedom to choose. Just because it might be a good business decision doesn't mean it's as cold-blooded and cynical as the author would like to believe. Edit: Original reply was deleted for whatever reason. My last paragraph is more or less a summary of that same post. Edit 2: Added a couple works to first paragraph, last sentence - "(perhaps to fault)"