When they’re at home reveling in (or reeling from) the birth or adoption of a child, moms at this health-care, materials and nutritional-products company take comfort in the fact that they have at least four months off before they have to go back to work. They are just as reassured by the recent addition of two fully paid weeks of parental leave, which compensates adoptive parents and fathers for the first time and expands paid leave for new mothers to (at minimum) eight weeks. As they transition back, they may take advantage of the company’s multiple on-site lactation rooms, utilize its breastfeeding consultants and, at some sites, join parenting groups or mentoring programs for moms. They rely on an on-site day care and preschool in Morristown, NJ, and local child-care discounts.

President & CEO Greg Babe

VP, HR Claus Fey

Women managers/execs 33% 

Women among top earners 29% 

Women hires in 2010 44% 

Average weeks of fully paid maternity leave offered 6

Allows new moms to “phase back” into work with reduced hours? Yes

Offers affinity group for new mothers? Yes

Offers backup childcare? Yes

Employees working flexibly 60%