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Facebook and Apple are offering women employees the chance to put their dreams of motherhood on ice � by paying for them to freeze their eggs. The extraordinary perk is aimed at boosting the number of women staff by allowing them to focus on their careers without sacrificing the opportunity to have children later in life. The Silicon Valley giants � the first major employers to offer the procedure for non-medical reasons � are willing to pay �12,500 a time to cover the cost of putting the eggs on ice plus an additional �300-a-year for deep freeze storage.