A Field Guide to Freezing Your Eggs

So, you're thinking about "having it all." Great! Unfortunately, your body might not be as amenable to your professional schedule as you'd like. A woman's fertility is finite and needs to be addressed during the years that are most crucial to career development. It's one of the more annoying snags in the corporate…

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Singapore Government Uses 'Fairytales' to Chide Women About Biological…

A new government-funded campaign in Singapore is educating young women about declining fertility through a series of illustrated "fairytales," distributed on university campuses, that retell classic stories that result in some kind of moral lesson for women who ignore the ticking of their biological clocks.

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Hooray for the Male Biological Clock!

On the heels of this week's buzzy little blog-storm about older fathers being linked with autism and schizophrenia (short version: older fathers have been linked with autism and schizophrenia), Ann Friedman at NY Mag breaks down why we care so much. The reason, she says, is women's deep, latent, kinda…

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Fertility Frenzy

Your biological clock? Yeah, it's ticking. But it's hard to know how fast. A new study out of University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands says while menopause for most women begins sometime between 40 and 50, there is no real "average" age that marks the lack of fertility, meaning that some women may begin…

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Hey Man, Your Clock Is Ticking. Your Biological Clock!

Some men get all weird and judge-y when a woman starts panicking about her rapidly ticking biological clock, but guess what? Dudes have clocks, too! Take that, suckers! New studies show that the men folk's fertility is pretty much shot once they hit age 40. One study has shown that the older a man is, the greater the…

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