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THE 100 BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR

10 Best Companies for Women

6. BAPTIST HEALTH SOUTH FLORIDA

Baptist offers a 50% 403(b) match up to 2% of salary—but it’s the culture that has female employees raving. Eightyfive percent of employees say they’re encouraged to balance work responsibilities with personal ones. “We all have lives outside of work, and Baptist recognizes that,” says one.

7. ATLANTIC HEALTH SYSTEM

The hospital offers a wide variety of commitment levels for its workforce. “I have been able to work full-time, part-time, and per diem and back to full-time during the various stages of raising my family,” says an employee. “I want to give back to the organization because it has been so great to me.”

8. SCRIPPS HEALTH

Some 68% of Scripps’s leaders are women—and managers/ directors receive average pay of roughly $124,800. Workers say the company exudes a communal feel. “There is a sense of family, and people go out of their way for others, whether it’s a co-worker or patient,” says one employee.

9. NORDSTROM

About 60% of the retailer’s 61,666 workers in the U.S. are under 35. Besides health care for part-time employees who work 30 hours or more a week, Nordstrom empowers its workforce. “Nordstrom gives you the freedom to make decisions and find ways to make customers happy.”

10. WELLSTAR HEALTH SYSTEM

Women make up 82% of the hospital system’s workforce, and 54% of them have been at the hospital for more than five years. Great benefits, such as backup care, concierge services, and flexible hours, allow employees to concentrate free of distractions, says one employee.

Criteria: To determine the Best Companies for Women list, we asked Great Place to Work to focus on the 100 Best Companies that have the highest female population as well as the most women in senior leadership and management positions. We included only companies that offer job sharing, telecommuting, and flexible scheduling options, as well as exemplary maternity and adoption benefits. For more info, go to fortune.com/best-companies-women.

CEO TERRI KELLY is a Gore lifer. She started at the company in 1983 as an associate—her first job after college.

A LATTICEWORK OF WORKERS

Manufacturer W.L. Gore & Associates has had “culture” since 1958.

By Daniel Roberts

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ORE-TEX FABRIC is certainly W.L. Gore’s bestknown product, but it is just one of many in a diverse portfolio that includes vacuum filters, microwave cable assemblies, guitar strings, dental floss, acoustic vents for cellphones, and even medical devices to treat heart defects. If it were publicly traded, the $3.1 billion private company would appear at No. 712 on the Fortune 1,000. But Gore-Tex is not the only thing this company is known for—it’s also famous for making employees deliriously happy.

Gore has earned a spot on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For list every year since 1998, and workplace experts