Women are freezing their eggs because men are refusing to commit to starting a family, a leading professor has warned.

Joyce Harper, professor of embryology at University College London, says it is wrong to think women freeze their eggs because they are obsessed by climbing the career ladder when, in reality, many are deserted by their partners when the issue of starting a family is raised.

As soon as the women mention Should we start having a family, should we think about it? the men have said, Bye, Harper said.

Unlike female fertility, which declines rapidly after the age of 35, men are able to father children into their fifties and older.

She said: It is easier for the men. They can just delay it

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