55: Percent of new mothers (still caring for infants) in the workforce in 2004

80: Percent of mothers who were still working at their jobs 8 or more months into their pregnancies, during the early part of this decade

55: Percent of first-time mothers in the early part of this decade who were working at a job within six months after giving birth

83: Percent of mothers who went back to work within a year of their child’s birth who returned to the same employer

Source: U.S. Census Bureau