Female STEM workers find it harder to get pregnant using IVF

Apr25

by Sindy Cator on April 25, 2016 at 3:42 pm

Working in tech isn’t great for women at the best of times – and it appears it could actually be affecting their chances of getting pregnant using IVF. Fertility startup FertilityIQ surveyed more than 1,000 of its users, who use the platform to log their experiences with different doctors and clinics, to understand what situations make you more or less likely to conceive. Adjusting for other factors, teachers were six-times more likely to conceive than average, followed rather distantly by women working in sales, marketing and public relations, who were all more than twice as likely to have success. Women working in STEM…