Best Companies Lists

Since 1986, our parent company, Seramount (Formerly Working Mother Media), has surveyed the organizations who are committed to women’s advancement, diversity and inclusion and family-friendly workplace culture. We started this journey with a focus on work-life practices for working mothers; but over time have expanded our questions to include measures around the advancement and inclusion of multicultural women, executive women, and dads.

Our lists raise awareness around workplace policies and encourage the implementation of programs to address issues and measure results. The results set the standard for workplace best practices in the United States. Being named to our lists or index is a valuable recruiting and retention tool and allows companies to track their own progress and benchmark against other companies in and out of their industry.

Top Companies for Executive Women

By emphasizing best practices that propel women to the top—and the demographics of the most senior levels—this list showcases companies closing the gender gap. Areas of focus include top 10 percent highest paid women, women on paths to Profit & Loss responsibilities, women who head major divisions and involvement of senior leaders in promoting women.

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Top Companies for Executive Women

100 Best Companies

With more than 35 years of data examining exactly what makes a family-friendly company, our Best Companies list looks at everything that impacts working mothers, including parental leave, phasing back, fertility benefits, adoption, child- and dependent-care benefits, flexible scheduling, mentoring, sponsorship and opportunities for advancement.

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100 Best Companies

Best Companies for Dads

Our newest list recognizes the growing importance companies place on giving dads time off and support for their families. Our rankings are determined by measuring gender-neutral or paternity leave offered, as well as actual time taken, phase-back policies, child- and dependent-care benefits, and corporate support groups for men and dads.

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Best Companies for Dads

Inclusion Index

The index helps organizations understand gaps in demographics, diverse talent strategies and corporate cultures. The results create a roadmap to drive internal change and help pinpoint Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) solutions to close the gap.

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Inclusion Index

Best Companies for Multicultural Women

This list highlights companies that help Black, Latinx, Asian, Native American, and Pacific Islander women advance. This includes evaluation of leadership development, sponsorship, employee-resource groups and management accountability for promotions. We also look at progress in demographics, especially in mid- and senior-management levels.

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Best Companies for Multicultural Women

Best Law Firms for Women

For more than a decade, Working Mother has recognized U.S. law firms that create and use best practices in retaining and promoting women lawyers. We assess factors that help women be promoted to the highest levels of law firms, such as committee roles, stretch assignments, client teams and sponsorship as well as promotion and retention demographics.

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Best Law Firms for Women