Working Pregnant Women

More than two-thirds of American pregnant women work, most of them full-time, according to the most recent figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. Of those who are employed, 80% are still at their jobs in the last month before the birth; in the early 1960s, that number was only 35%.

– How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives (2010) by Annie Murphy Paul, page 59: