Just more than 20 percent of respondents to a recent Women In Optometry Pop-Up Poll said that they had ever interviewed for a job while pregnant. Of those who said that they had interviewed while pregnant, nearly half did not inform the potential employer. Nearly one-quarter of the respondents said that a pregnancy impacted their decision to look for another job.

Individuals who completed this Pop-Up Poll were fairly split down the middle with 49 percent as business owners and 51 percent as employees, and 62 percent of respondents said that the second trimester is the appropriate time to tell a boss about a pregnancy.

When asked how much time did you take off as a new parent, just 11 percent of respondents took 3 to 6 months off from work. The most popular time frame among participants was 8 to 12 weeks with nearly 46 percent taking that amount of time. Another 25 percent took 4 to 6 weeks, and 11 percent took 2 to 4 weeks.

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