Best Employers
BY STATE
2021
EDITED BY edward segal
AUGUST 24, 2021
he Covid-19 pandemic has tested corporate America in
unprecedented ways. And just when it seemed the crisis would
subside, the light at the end of the tunnel turned out to be another oncoming train in the form of the Delta variant. At the same time, leaders have had to motivate talent and pursue profits amid a sensitive political landscape that spurred new levels of corporate activism.
It was against this backdrop that Forbes partnered with market research company Statista to compile our third annual list of America’s Best Employers By State. The list is divided into 51 rankings—one for each of the 50 states, plus the District of Columbia—and was compiled by surveying 80,000 Americans working for businesses with at least 500 employees. Surveys were conducted on a rolling basis from October 2020 to June 2021 and were anonymous, allowing participants to freely share their opinions. The final list ranks the 1,330 employers that received the most recommendations.
For the full story and methodology, click here.
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ILLUSTRATION BY ISRAEL G. VARGAS 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.
