It was the same in Richmond (Virginia).  
Teachers who wanted to remain employed did not announce a pregnancy and continued to work until it was obvious they were pregnant (or had some strange condition that caused "excessive bloating").  I only had female teachers, and many of them were over the age of 50-- never married or widowed.  The few younger ones didn't stay long.  There was a definite sense of something "wrong" and to be spoken of in whispers if a married teacher was suspected of being pregnant-- as if it might be a scandal.  I guess any unmarried teacher who became pregnant was expected to go to Siberia.

--
Melinda C. P. Skinner
Richmond, VA


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From: Judith Bailey Gabor <[log in to unmask]>
> In the late '50s & at least into the middle '60s, when I was in grad 
> school in Durham NC & married to a grad student, women teachers were 
> required to resign when they began to show and needed to wear maternity 
> clothes.  My financially struggling teacher friends therefore continued 
> teaching as long as possible - looking like bag ladies in ill-fitting 
> non-maternity clothing.
> 
> Judy Gabor
> 
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