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Why you shouldn't keep your pregnancy secret at work

Working women inclined to conceal a pregnancy from prying coworkers may be better off opening up and carrying on, according to a new study.

By Akane Otani | Updated on April 21, 2015

(Bloomberg Business) — The workplace isn’t always a friendly place for pregnant women. (Just ask the U.S. Supreme Court, which decided a case last month that could make it easier for some women to sue their employers for pregnancy discrimination.) Yet working women inclined to conceal a pregnancy from prying coworkers may be better off opening up and carrying on, according to a new study.

In a paper that appeared in the spring issue of The Academy of Management Journal, researchers from the University of Georgia, the University of Houston-Clear Lake, Oklahoma State University, and the Connection, a nonprofit, looked at three studies based on surveys of hundreds of pregnant workers.

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