Big Four Make Working Mothers Magazine Best Companies List

Three of the Big Four firms have made the Top 10 of the latest Working Mother magazine rankings for Best Companies for Working Mothers. Ernst and Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers made it into the elite group of 10 best companies which provide mom-friendly part-time career paths for working mothers. Deloitte and Accenture didn’t make the top 10 but surely made in the top 100. BearingPoint was conspicuously missing, and Capgemini didn’t make the list either, more so since it didn’t fall into the covered US company universe.

Here’s the Top 10 URL link:

http://www.workingmother.com/web?service=direct/1/ViewArticlePage/dlinkFullArticle&sp=1658&sp=94

Here’s a synopsis of what’s involved and how companies get into this select list (extracted from the working mother website):

“What’s Measured
Seven areas are measured and scored: workforce profile, compensation, child care, flexibility, time off and leaves, family-friendly programs and company culture.

This Year’s Winners
With the help of an independent survey research company, we validated the applications for completeness and tabulated the scores, which then determined the winners.

For this year’s 100 Best, we gave particular weight to family-friendly programs, flexibility, leave policies and benefits for part-timers. All applicants receive feedback showing how they compare to other applicants; however, the names of applicants that do not make the list are kept confidential. The company profiles, culled from the applications and interviews with company representatives, reflect 2007 data. Fact checkers verify all the information.”

Kudos again to the Big Four firms for actively supporting working mothers, enabling them to balance their busy family lives with their career aspirations, and actively providing creative ways for moms to advance within a framework which often demands full-time attention to career development and firm matters.