This study focused on four stereotypic characteristics that contained discrimination behaviors toward pregnant women. These stereotypical discriminatory characteristics toward these women incompetence, lack of commitment, inflexibility, and a need for accommodation. There were six conditions that the study had: pregnant displaying competence, pregnant control, pregnant displaying commitment, pregnant displaying flexibility, pregnant woman not needing an accommodation, and non pregnant. This study was a field experiment where pregnant women went out to apply for jobs in a retail setting. The results found that pregnant women did receive interpersonal hostility more than non-pregnant women did. However, managers gave less of an interpersonal
