Winning a job at this consumer products company can really enhance caregivers’ quality of life, since it garners them family health insurance with full coverage for preexisting conditions and extends it to all of the dependents in their household (even those unrelated by blood). Employees may use it to obtain free, confidential family counseling. For additional advice on mental and emotional health issues, or to find dependent care, they can contact a new resource and referral service. Workers with young kids utilize three on-site day care centers, which offer subsidies and sliding-scale tuition. In Boston, employees rely on facility-based backup care up to 20 times per year, paying just $15 per visit. (Discounts and priority access are available elsewhere.)

Chairman, President & CEO Robert McDonald

Global HR Officer Moheet Nagrath

Women managers/execs 38%

Women hires in 2011 47%

Average weeks of fully paid maternity leave offered 4

Offers paid paternity leave? No

Offers paid adoption leave? No

Women in affinity groups in 2011 41%

Offers backup child care? Yes

Employees working flexibly 99%