Best Employers
for Women
2021
EDITED BY Vicky Valet
JULY 27, 2021
merican women have lost 3.8 million jobs since the Covid-19
pandemic began. Though women’s labor force participation
rate has edged up slightly to 57.5% from its pandemic-era
low of 57.2% in April 2020, it remains well below the 59.2% recorded in February 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Of the many reasons for this trend—including the fact that industries typically dominated by women were among the hardest hit by the economic effects of the coronavirus—research from the U.S. Census Bureau and Federal Reserve shows 32.1% of unemployed women ages 25 to 44 had left the workforce by July 2020 due to childcare demands, as compared to just 12.1% of men in that same group.
With our annual ranking of America’s Best Employers For Women, Forbes teamed up with market research company Statista to identify the companies liked most by female workers. The list was compiled by surveying 50,000 Americans, including 30,000 women, working for businesses with at least 1,000 employees. Representation at the executive and board levels were taken into account, as were initiatives to improve gender equity and recent or unresolved allegations regarding discrimination or misconduct.
For the full story and methodology, click here.
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ILLUSTRATION BY CRISTIANA COUCEIRO FOR FORBES
merican women have lost 3.8 million jobs since the Covid-19
pandemic began. Though women’s labor force participation
rate has edged up slightly to 57.5% from its pandemic-era
low of 57.2% in April 2020, it remains well below the 59.2% recorded in February 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Of the many reasons for this trend—including the fact that industries typically dominated by women were among the hardest hit by the economic effects of the coronavirus—research from the U.S. Census Bureau and Federal Reserve shows 32.1% of unemployed women ages 25 to 44 had left the workforce by July 2020 due to childcare demands, as compared to just 12.1% of men in that same group.
With our annual ranking of America’s Best Employers For Women, Forbes teamed up with market research company Statista to identify the companies doing the most to support their female workers. The list was compiled by surveying 50,000 Americans, including 30,000 women, working for businesses with at least 1,000 employees. Representation at the executive and board levels were taken into account, as were initiatives to improve gender equity and recent or unresolved allegations regarding discrimination or misconduct.
For the full story and methodology, click here.