dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.contributor.advisor | drs. Carla Kessler, prof. dr. Ingrid Robeyns | |
dc.contributor.author | Graaf, P.J.A.M. de | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-17T17:00:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-08-17T17:00:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/23558 | |
dc.description.abstract | Apple and Facebook offer their female employees financial support for freezing their eggs, so that they can postpone pregnancies to a later point in time that clashes less with their careers. I would like to make an ethical evaluation of this policy. Hence, my research question is the following: is non-medical egg freezing sponsored by employers morally laudable, morally permissible or morally impermissible? I will give an overview of the (dis)advantages of non-medical egg freezing and evaluate whether some of these (dis)advantages are legitimate violations or promotions of morality. I will conclude that there are more violations of morality than promotions of morality. In my chapter on corporate responsibility, I will conclude that firms carry moral responsibility due to the unequal relationship between employer and employee and the sphere of influence of firms. Finally, I will apply the conclusions of the previous chapters to three cases. I will conclude that due to the prevalence of violations of morality sponsored non-medical egg-freezing is morally impermissible. The question that remains at the end of this thesis is the following: why do Facebook and Apple want to offer non-medical egg freezing to their employees? I will conclude that even though Facebook and Apple may have actually had good intentions, they have failed to recognize the fundamental ethical nature of the case of non-medical egg freezing and the responsibility that comes with it. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
dc.format.extent | 705395 | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.title | Non-medical egg freezing sponsored by employers: an ethical evaluation | |
dc.type.content | Master Thesis | |
dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
dc.subject.keywords | Egg freezing, women's rights, business ethics, medical ethics, Facebook, Apple, moral responsibility | |
dc.subject.courseuu | Applied Ethics | |