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Egg freezing now a female employee benefit at Facebook and Apple by jennifer schlueter
ning on hold in order to pursue their career. By covering up to $20,000 in medical procedures the two tech giants, both dominated by about 70% of male employees, want to attract and keep female talent to increase diversity.
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by Vickie Vértiz ing with Angels insignia, while this does not rule out that the attack was due to a sport-related rivalry. ABC Los Angeles said the victim is a former LAPD office and U.S. Marine. He remains in critical condition. The victim was identified as 43-year-old Alex Arredondo, from Huntington Beach. He was upgraded on Monday night from critical to serious condition, according to the NBC Southern
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California website. Anaheim police Lieutenant Bob Dunn told the Weekly that Arredondo “… was severely beaten,” but “No weapons were used.” To honor the attack victim, dozens of people and Angels fans gathered at Angels Stadium the same night to hold a vigil in
Forbes quotes a spokesperson for Apple: “We continue to expand our benefits for women, with a new extended maternity leave policy, along with cyro-
Former LAPD officer attacked after Angels game remains in critical condition After the Angels lost to the Kansas City Royals on October 3, police said, witnesses told reporters that three men approached the victim from behind, hit him, perhaps more than once, and ran off. According to reports from the LA Weekly, no words were exchanged. The LA Weekly also reported that both the victim and the perpetrators were wearing cloth-
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Alex Johnson, Executive Director of the Children’s Defense Fund - California, released the following statement on the U.S. Census Bureau’s State Health Insurance Coverage Estimates: “Today’s health insurance numbers show more than a 6 percent drop in the number of uninsured children in California between 2012 and 2013 – which means 56,884 more children now have health coverage. Significant progress increasing the number of covered children nationwide has decreased the number of uninsured children to historic lows. These gains are mostly due to the strong coverage guarantees in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which last year provided comprehensive health and mental health coverage to more than 44 million children across the country, and more than half of California’s children. “Since 2011, CDF-CA in partnership with AASA, the School Superintendent’s Association in California has increased the capacity of school districts to identify uninsured children and link them to health coverage. California was the only state in the country to see a statistically significant decrease in the number of uninsured children in 2013. “However, even as we
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg -Photo by Niall Kennedy
Last Tuesday, NBC announced that Apple will soon follow Facebook’s example of financially supporting their female US employees who want to freeze their eggs. This would allow ambitious women to put family plan-
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