Motherhood on ice: lack of suitable men drives women to freeze their eggs

A lack of equal male partners, rather than career or educational ambitions, is why more women are trying to prolong their fertility

Selfish career-driven women. Gullible dupes of the fertility industry. Victims of the patriarchy. When leading anthropologist Marcia C Inhorn first embarked on her decade-long study of why women freeze their eggs, the popular narrative was largely one of derision.

There was a lot of either blaming women or saying that they're naive, stupid and so forth," says the Yale professor, from a red armchair in her home in New Haven, Connecticut.