Slideshow: Postponing motherhood - Taiwanese women opt to freeze their eggs

Reuters Published August 27, 2013
Cryotops, which are strips used as storage devices for oocytes and embryos, are seen in a lab at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, August 8, 2013.
Cryotops, which are strips used as storage devices for oocytes and embryos, are seen in a lab at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, August 8, 2013.
An employee demonstrates the preparation to take eggs with a needle at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, August 8, 2013. — Reuters Photo
An employee demonstrates the preparation to take eggs with a needle at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, August 8, 2013. — Reuters Photo
An employee demonstrates the process to extract eggs in a lab at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, August 8, 2013. — Reuters Photo
An employee demonstrates the process to extract eggs in a lab at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, August 8, 2013. — Reuters Photo
An employee demonstrates the process to extract eggs in a lab at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, August 8, 2013. — Reuters Photo
An employee demonstrates the process to extract eggs in a lab at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, August 8, 2013. — Reuters Photo
An employee demonstrates the process to extract eggs in a lab at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, August 8, 2013. — Reuters Photo
An employee demonstrates the process to extract eggs in a lab at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, August 8, 2013. — Reuters Photo
An employee demonstrates the process to freeze eggs with liquid nitrogen in a lab at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, August 8, 2013. — Reuters Photo
An employee demonstrates the process to freeze eggs with liquid nitrogen in a lab at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, August 8, 2013. — Reuters Photo
An employee demonstrates the process to freeze eggs with liquid nitrogen in a lab at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, August 8, 2013. — Reuters Photo
An employee demonstrates the process to freeze eggs with liquid nitrogen in a lab at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, August 8, 2013. — Reuters Photo
An employee checks oocytes and embryos (in the sealed test tubes) in tanks filled with liquid nitrogen in a storage room at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, August 8, 2013. — Reuters Photo
An employee checks oocytes and embryos (in the sealed test tubes) in tanks filled with liquid nitrogen in a storage room at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, August 8, 2013. — Reuters Photo
An employee checks tanks filled with liquid nitrogen which are used to preserve oocytes and embryos in a storage room at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, August 8, 2013. — Reuters Photo
An employee checks tanks filled with liquid nitrogen which are used to preserve oocytes and embryos in a storage room at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, August 8, 2013. — Reuters Photo
Cryotops, which are strips used as storage devices for oocytes and embryos, are seen in a lab at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, August 8, 2013. — Reuters Photo
Cryotops, which are strips used as storage devices for oocytes and embryos, are seen in a lab at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, August 8, 2013. — Reuters Photo

Caught between traditional expectations and career pressures, working women in Taiwan are increasingly opting to freeze their eggs at fertility clinics as they postpone marriage and motherhood.

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