Best companies for working moms
Need help balancing work and motherhood? Find jobs at these family-friendly employers to receive benefits, including paid maternity leave, flexible work options, childcare, and adoption assistance.
Trying to strike that perfect work-life balance is a Herculean task for many working mothers. It requires constant rearranging of your schedules, budgets, and even carpools that sometimes it feels like it's become a full-time job in itself. The best companies for working moms know you're working double shifts. When it comes to employers, we're not just talking about the companies with best maternity leave, either. You need benefits that go beyond the baby stage.
A recent Monster survey found that 90% of working parents ranked a flexible work schedule to be very important to them, whereas only 48% of employers reported offering a flexible work schedule as part of their benefits and perks.
Balancing your career with motherhood shouldn't be so difficult. If only you could find the right employer who gets it. Well, some companies do understand, as Working Mother magazine’s most recent list of the best companies for working moms proves.
While 66% of the companies on the list offer employee-resource groups for working parents, 26% provide similar services for employees working flexible schedules, and 91% offer backup childcare services. An average of 61% of the employees at these companies are telecommuting. That sounds like the makings of a positive work-life balance to us.
Click through the alphabetical list below to find job listings that might be a good fit for you—and your family.
Best companies for working mothers:
- Abbott
- AbbVie
- Accenture
- Adobe Systems
- The Advisory Board Company
- Allianz Life Insurance
- American Express
- Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
- Astellas
- A.T. Kearney
- Bain & Co.
- Bank of America
- Baptist Health South Florida
- BDO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- Bon Secours Virginia Health System
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- The Boston Consulting Group
- Boston Scientific
- Bristol-Myers-Squibb
- Broad Institute
- Capital One
- CA Technologies
- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
- Colgate-Palmolive
- Deloitte
- Diageo
- DigitasLBi
- Discovery Communications
- Dow Jones
- DuPont
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Ernst & Young (EY)
- Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner
- FINRA
- First Horizon National
- Freddie Mac
- General Electric
- Genentech
- General Mills
- Goldman Sachs
- Grant Thornton
- Herman Miller
- Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
- HP
- IBM
- Intel
- JLL
- Johnson & Johnson
- JPMorgan Chase
- Katten Muchin Rosenman
- Kimberly-Clark
- KPMG
- LEGO Systems
- L.E.K. Consulting
- Lenovo
- Leo Burnett
- Lexmark
- L’Oreal
- Marriott
- MassMutual Financial Group
- McKinsey & Co.
- Merck
- MetLife
- Moffitt Cancer Center
- Monsanto
- Moody’s
- Morgan Stanley
- Moss Adams
- New York Life Insurance
- Northwestern Memorial HealthCare
- Novo Nordisk
- OppenheimerFunds
- Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
- PNC Financial Services
- Principal
- Procter & Gamble
- Prudential Financial
- PwC
- Roche Diagnostics
- RSM
- S&P Global
- SapientRazorfish
- SC Johnson
- Scripps Health
- State Street
- Synchrony Financial
- Takeda Pharmaceutical
- Texas Instruments
- TIAA
- TriHealth Physician Partners
- Turner
- UBS
- Unilever
- Verizon
- Viacom
- WellStar Health System
- Zoetis
- Zurich
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