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100 Best Companies for Working Mothers
Best Companies for Working Mothers
Working Mother just released its 25th annual list of 100 Best Companies. Bank of America, Deloitte, Discovery, Ernst & Young, General Mills and IBM are among the top ten.
To land a spot on the list, businesses answered more than 600 questions about the benefits they provide to support working mothers and their families. Working Mother then scored companies based on a variety of factors, including workforce representation, childcare, flex time programs, and maternity leave policies. All of the winning companies provide private lactation rooms as well as assistance finding elder-care services.
Working Mother’s list began in 1986 with just 30 companies and by 1992, the list grew to 100. IBM and Johnson & Johnson are the only two companies that have been on Working Women’s list from the beginning. Luckily, times have changed in the past 25 years and thanks, in part, to these companies, being a working mom has generally gotten easier.
The 2010 Working Mother Best Companies list “sets the bar higher than ever before, each one offering a menu of benefits including formal and informal flexibility–with flextime, telecommuting and temporary part-time work options, to name only a few,” according to workingmother.com.
If only all companies could all be as family-friendly as Discovery Communications, where apparently, new moms are allowed nine fully paid weeks of maternity leave.
I wonder how many years it will take for the list to change to reflect the needs of not only working mothers, but also working fathers.
Which family-friendly benefits are especially important for you at a company?
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The Know It All Parenting | Strollerderby commented on Sep 28 10 at 1:29 pmmichelle commented on Sep 15 10 at 12:47 pmWhatever you do, don’t take this list seriously. They survey companies, not actual working mothers. All companies have great-sounding policies, but that is not where the rubber meets the road. Major case in point: two companies that made their list last year were sued (successfully) for discrimination in pay and promotions. This year the companies are included on the list again (!?!) for settling those lawsuits (!?!). So…WTF, Working Mother? If I were you I would get my guidance from other working moms I know.
Rubi commented on Sep 16 10 at 9:10 amthank you for publishing that comment.
paulabernstein commented on Sep 16 10 at 9:11 amYou raise a really good point, Michelle. These companies basically rated themselves, but nobody interviewed the actual working women.
Becky commented on Sep 16 10 at 11:34 amThe “top” companies are all major advertisers in the magazine too. The magazine publishes this list with no serious questions asked, and nobody’s usually the wiser. I was encouraged to see, though, that this year when Forbes published the press release from the magazine, it did mention that two of the companies recently paid out millions in gender-discrimination suits. So … baby steps.
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