American Express
American Express
New York, NY
It’s a Fact!
53% of all managers and execs at American Express are women.
Employees
29916
Women
66%
American Express
What We Love
Juggling a busy schedule and the birth of a first child can be tricky, but new moms who work for this financial firm quickly learn how to handle it all, thanks to their employer’s interactive Parenting 101 seminars. Professional parenting coaches demonstrate various child-care approaches and explain how to handle challenging situations, providing advice from pregnancy through age 3. But that’s just the start of how this New York City–based firm steps up to assist its working-mother employees: It also provides them with up to six paid weeks of time off after a birth or adoption and 20 free visits to a childcare center (or in-home visits) for backup care each year. Last January, servicecenter employees in Fort Lauderdale, FL, rejoiced when the firm opened a backup-care facility on-site; it now serves more than 1,300 children under 13.
Juggling a busy schedule and the birth of a first child can be tricky, but new moms who work for this financial firm quickly learn how to handle it all, thanks to their employer’s interactive Parenting 101 seminars. Professional parenting coaches demonstrate various child-care approaches and explain how to handle challenging situations, providing advice from pregnancy through age 3. But that’s just the start of how this New York City–based firm steps up to assist its working-mother employees: It also provides them with up to six paid weeks of time off after a birth or adoption and 20 free visits to a childcare center (or in-home visits) for backup care each year. Last January, servicecenter employees in Fort Lauderdale, FL, rejoiced when the firm opened a backup-care facility on-site; it now serves more than 1,300 children under 13.
Chairman & CEO: Kenneth Chenault
Executive VP, HR: L. Kevin Cox
Women managers/execs: 53%
Women among top earners: 44%
Women on board of directors: 17%
Women corporate executive hires in 2008: 33%
Women participating in management or leadership training in the past year: 64%
Women participating in formalized executive succession planning last year: 38%
Women promoted last year who utilized a formal flexible work arrangement: 33%
Formal compensation policies reward managers who help women advance: Yes
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