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What Have the Working Mother 100 Best Companies Got That Your Company Doesn’t?

Working Mother’s annual 100 Best Companies list was released in late September. Companies on it range in size from just over 600 employees to 170,000 plus. Industries vary from advertising to law, healthcare to high tech and manufacturing. They are headquartered in every region of the United States. But they all have one thing in […]

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What do the Working Mother 100 Best Companies Have That Other Employers Don’t?

Last month, Working Mother magazine released its “100 Best Companies” list. Companies need to apply to get onto the list, and one of the things I do is help my clients with these applications, so I know a thing or two about what it takes. Yet it’s still always gratifying to see the extent to […]

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Employees Have Made Progress This Year, and For That (At Least) I’m Grateful

It’s been a tough year for this country in many ways. A highly divisive election campaign, culminating in a highly divisive election;  sad tidings about the death of so many American icons, from Mohammad Ali to Prince;  a seemingly endless parade of news about shootings and other senseless violence. So I wondered what there might […]

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9+ Things I Learned At The “Working Mother” Conference

October is National Work and Family month, so I was happy to take a couple of days last week to attend Working Mother Media’s Work-Life Congress, an annual conference built around the Working Mother 100 Best Companies list. In addition to a gala awards dinner, the event featured a day and a half’s worth of […]

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Helping New Moms with—Wait, a Vending Machine?

At the sprawling Johns Hopkins University and Health Care System, support for breastfeeding employees  is not just a one-off policy or accommodation, it’s a comprehensive program. And it’s been some time in the making. Johns Hopkins comprises both a string of health care facilities, including Johns Hopkins Hospital, itself, and the university, which offers undergraduate […]

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How to Get on the Working Mother 100 Best Companies List: Ten Tips for a Better Application

The application for Working Mother’s annual “100 Best Companies” list is out—if your company wants to try for this list, you have until mid-March to answer the 500 questions, write your essay, and get your entry in. It’s a lot of work, but it’s for a big reward. As I wrote in my last post, […]

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Writing corporate award submissions, work-life, diversity, HR communications and more for over a dozen years.

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