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Working Mother Top 100: only 2 in Ohio


Working Mother’s 2007 100 Best Companies list is out. (Read here for what “best” means to them.)

The two Ohio companies, neither of which made the top 10, are American Electric Power in Columbus and TriHealth Bethesda North Good Samaritan in Cincinnati.

You can peruse the list several ways if you visit here first. This page features a left-hand sidebar that includes a list of “the best” law firms (none in Ohio although a couple with satellites here), small companies (A Child’s Waiting Adoption Program in Akron, National Affordable Housing Trust in Columbus, Noble-Davis Consulting in Solon) and companies for multicultural women (American Electric Power and P & G in Cincy).

NewsNet5 has this alpha list with states noted too.

So – how does Ohio this year stack up to Ohio last year?

Stagnant.

I wrote about the 2006 selections here.  There were only two from Ohio then also – AEP and P & G, which has now fallen off the master 100 list and only landed on the list for multicultural women.

Whatever happen to learning from the best practices of others, or – is it Working Mother’s methodology? or both?

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:49 pm September 25th, 2007 in Business, Ohio, Women 

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2 Responses to “Working Mother Top 100: only 2 in Ohio”

  1. 1 Becky on September 28th, 2007 7:07 pm

    Umm, well, you might want to take a closer look at WM’s methodology. Most of the companies on the list are WM advertisers, which calls the list into question on that count alone. But WM apparently doesn’t rely on any outside information (for example, how many of them have paid court-ordered judgments for discrimination against working mothers?) … and it certainly doesn’t require input from employees. It only uses information provided by the companies (PR and HR departments) on the “survey.”

  2. 2 Jill Miller Zimon on September 28th, 2007 10:40 pm

    Becky – I definitely need to spend some more time on your blog, but thanks for commenting. Yeah, you know – I always hate those rankings – I can’t remember the last time there was one I trusted, let alone liked. I suppose I can’t fault anyone for trying to come up with something, anything to help but…I didn’t know or look re: the advertisers. Doesn’t surprise me – I imagine if you look at Fortune 500 or Forbes’ whatever they do – you’ll find the same?

    Anywa – thanks for reading and commenting.

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