WORKING DURING PREGNANCY

[摘要] Nearly two million working women give birth each year, and studies show that a growing number of them are working later into their pregnancies, sometimes up to first contraction. . .The National Center for Health Statistics dected a. . .trend in unpublished and recently analyzed 1982 data it collected from 2000 working women 15 to 44 years old. . . Thirty-five percent were still on the job in the ninth month of pregnancy, nearly twice the 19 percent reported in a similar study in 1973. Eleven percent worked right up to birth.

[学科分类] 儿科学