They want to put motherhood on hold as they pursue their careers and egg freezing is a way of keeping their options open. The common assumption is that most women who freeze their eggs are twenty-somethings who want to delay childbirth in consideration of their career trajectories. Inhorn: Ever since egg freezing became available for reasons beyond medical conditions, there has been a lot of discussion about who is using this technology. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, discusses what she found and how it runs counter to the conventional wisdom about egg freezing’s rising popularity. In an interview with Yale News, Inhorn, the William K. Her narrative, drawn from interviews with 150 women who underwent the procedure, reveals the real-world complexities behind women’s choices. Inhorn explores the factors that motivate different individuals to freeze their eggs - including what she describes as a “mating gap” causing a shortage of partners for college-educated women - that run counter to popular assumptions. In a new book, “Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs” (New York University Press), Yale anthropologist Marcia C. By the end of 2019, more than 36,000 women in the United States used the increasingly popular technology to preserve their eggs and extend their fertility.
In 2012, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine lifted the procedure’s experimental label, allowing women to freeze their eggs for non-medical reasons. Initially, the technology was limited to women undergoing chemotherapy or experiencing medical conditions known to cause infertility. Oocyte vitrification, a method to flash-freeze human eggs so they can be stored for later use, emerged in the early 2000s.
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