Accenture locations offer wellness fairs with immunizations, flu shots and biometric screenings; in individual offices, more than 60 employee wellness champions promote health-related events.

Mothers fill many leadership roles at this management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with notable standouts including Chief Financial Officer Pamela Craig and General Counsel, Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer Julie Sweet, both moms of two. To help other talented women advance, the company spent more than $800 million on training and development last year and provided 20,000 online job courses; members of the consulting workforce can pursue MBAs with up to $100,000 in tuition aid. everyone who works here is engaged in a professional mentoring relationship, and there’s specific guidance for new parents through the employee assistance program. Alternative work schedules abound (and remote work is especially popular); if they like, employees may apply for 5 days to 12 weeks of unpaid time off, with benefits, or request leaves of absence that last up to a year.

CEO Pierre Nanterme

Chief HR Officer Jill Smart

Women managers/execs 32% 

Women hires in 2011 32%

Average weeks of fully paid maternity leave offered 8

Offers paid paternity leave? Yes

Offers paid adoption leave? Yes

Women in affinity groups in 2011 Not tracked

Offers backup child care? Yes

Employees working flexibly 75%

 

* Total U.S. workforce, including consolidated entities