Are Men the Overlooked Reason for Egg Freezing?

Global fertility decline is ringing demographic, economic, and social alarm bells. In a recent New York Times opinion piece, author Jessica Grose asks, “Are Men the Overlooked Reason for the Fertility Decline?” She provides compelling evidence to suggest that this...

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Have Eggs, Will Travel. To Freeze Them, NYT

Faced with the high cost of egg-freezing in their home countries, some women are going abroad for a better deal, and a vacation. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/08/style/egg-freezing-procedure-travel.html    

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Oncofertility Consortium Webinar: Motherhood on Ice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwXE3COmbPQ   Date/Time: April 5, 2023, 2-3 pm EST Organizers: Practice Committee Topic: Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs Speaker: Marcia C. Inhorn, PhD, MPH (USA) Moderator: Mahmoud Salama, MD, PhD...

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INSIDER: It’s not about career planning

It's not about career planning. As a medical anthropologist, I can tell you that women are freezing their eggs because of partnership problems. As a medical anthropologist and gender scholar, I have been privileged to gather egg freezing stories from 150 American...

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Meet the Scholar: Snapshots of Intellectual Journeys

Marcia C. Inhorn, PhD, MPH, is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology and The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, where she serves as Chair...

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Teaching Under Triage

“Teaching Under Triage,” By Alice Yan, The New Journal As Yale wraps up its first-ever completely online semester, five tenured Yale faculty members, most of whom have been teaching for several decades, speak about how they’ve been handling online teaching while...

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Top Influential Anthropologists Today

Considered the best of the sciences and humanities, modern anthropology necessitates an interdisciplinary approach. Among them you will see anthropologists of every race and gender, exploring complex problems with innovative solutions. These scholars are teachers,...

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Why Are Women Freezing Their Eggs

Listen to this podcast by Priscilla Posada in which Yale anthropologist Marcia C. Inhorn discusses egg freezing as a new form of fertility preservation. Prof. Inhorn has conducted a major National Science Foundation funded study of egg freezing in the US and...

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The Arab world’s silent reproductive revolution

The Arab world’s silent reproductive revolution

Changing household structures, economic growth and contraceptives prompt dramatic drop in fertility rate, study finds.by Inaara Gangji & Muhammad Chaudary Doha, Qatar - When Maryam al-Badr, 20, a Qatari female student at Northwestern University in Qatar,...

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