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Fertility is becoming a workplace issue but employer support can create winners and losers

Written by Krystal Wilkinson, Reader (Associate Professor) in Human Resource Management, Manchester Metropolitan University

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Since the world’s first human baby was born by in vitro fertilisation (IVF) in the UK in 1978, over 10 million IVF babies have been born globally. Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) have also become even more sophisticated, now including egg-freezing and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).

But alongside these...

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