Do Not Disturb: The Inside Story
Dr Marcia Inhorn on Egg Freezing, Fertility and Reproductive Choice
Dr Marcia Inhorn joins Simona Deifta for a filmed long-form conversation about egg freezing, fertility, reproductive timing and the systems shaping women’s choices.
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In this episode
Simona and Dr Marcia Inhorn discuss egg freezing, fertility, medical choice, age, partnership and what women are rarely told clearly enough before making reproductive decisions.
Themes in this conversation
Egg freezing and what women need to know
Fertility, age and reproductive timing
How social systems shape private medical choices
The emotional pressure around motherhood and timing
Why better information changes reproductive decisions
The gap between medical possibility and lived reality
About Dr Marcia Inhorn
Dr Marcia Inhorn is a medical anthropologist and leading scholar on fertility, assisted reproduction and reproductive health. Her conversation on Do Not Disturb explores the social and emotional reality behind egg freezing and fertility decisions.
About Do Not Disturb
Do Not Disturb: The Inside Story is a filmed long-form podcast hosted by Simona Deifta about modern female life beneath public success: motherhood, ambition, identity, relationships, money, fertility, burnout, emotional resilience and reinvention.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Dr Marcia Inhorn’s Do Not Disturb episode about?
Yale professor and Motherhood on Ice author Dr Marcia Inhorn joins Simona Deifta to explain the social and relationship forces behind egg freezing, including the mating gap.
What topics does Dr Marcia Inhorn discuss?
Egg freezing, fertility, the mating gap, relationships, motherhood and the changing routes women take towards family life.
Where can I listen to the full episode?
Listen to Dr Marcia Inhorn on Do Not Disturb:
https://shows.acast.com/do-not-disturb-the-inside-story/episodes/marciainhorn
This conversation is for general information and does not replace personalised medical advice.
Read more conversations and ideas in The Edit:
Do Not Disturb · A podcast about motherhood
Dr Marcia Inhorn:
The social story behind egg freezing
Marcia Inhorn on egg freezing, the partner gap and why women’s reproductive decisions have a bigger story behind them.
The Do Not Disturb edit
Three things to take with you.
Three ideas from the conversation, in our words.
Do
Ask which social circumstances sit behind a reproductive decision.
Not
Treat egg freezing as a guarantee or dismiss it as a career indulgence.
Disturb
The habit of blaming women for delayed motherhood without examining the partner gap.
Why are women freezing their eggs?
Marcia and Simona discuss the circumstances behind egg freezing and the familiar assumption that women are simply putting careers first. Marcia’s account brings relationships and the availability of a partner into the conversation.
They look at reproductive timing as a decision shaped by more than one woman’s plans. Egg freezing enters that discussion as an option, without a promise of a future pregnancy.
What comes up
- The partner gap
- Career assumptions and reproductive timing
- The limits of what egg freezing can promise
Keep the conversation going
Angela Saini ↗
For challenging stories that treat unequal conditions as natural.
Gillian Orr ↗
For the assumptions surrounding family size and reproductive choices.
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