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<p>Thought this was interesting.</p>
<p>The best thing for a working mom is a working dad who believes that he’s a full partner, too, so it doesn’t become “it’s all mom’s responsibility and she needs to figure out what firm helps her juggle it all” but stays at “mom and dad are equal partners who figure out solutions together.”</p>
<p>Sorry, I hate the fact that there aren’t lists of “best firms for working dads” - because it implies that working dads don’t need help, because they just get to concentrate on the job, and it’s the working mom’s problem to figure out childcare, how to get dinner on the table, get the kids to soccer, etc.</p>
<p>Amazing how many of those companies are evil drug companies. Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?</p>
<p>I have worked for companies on those lists in the past, and I think they are actually kind of a joke (and I have been a working mom for 20 years!). Just because they have a few policies that they promote loudly to people who make these lists doesn’t mean that the corporate culture in the company supports working women.</p>
<p>zoosermom – Many of my clients are pharma companies. I have no clue why they get demonized so – I think many of them would be great companies to work for.</p>
<p>That magazine makes me cringe. Just rubs me the wrong way. Can’t put my finger on it.</p>
<p>yeah, those pharma jobs are really great, as long as you can keep them. It’s been estimated that over 180,000 life sciences (pharma/biotech) employees have lost their jobs since 2007.</p>
<p>I work for a school that is on the list of top universities to work for. My coworkers & I almost fell off our chairs laughing over that one. Take the lists with a grain of salt.</p>
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same here. Whatever the institutional goals may be, it’s been my experience that most (all?) of the actual employees want to do good things and benefit others.</p>
<p>I see nothing wrong with a pharma company wanting to make money. Drugs don’t invent themselves.</p>
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<p>True dat. And companies are only allowed to have an exclusive patent on their product for a limited time before generic manufacturerers are allowed to produce it. </p>
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<p>Full Disclosure: my father was a sales rep for Big Pharma for 32 years until his retirement in 1989.</p>
<p>My daughter just finished an internship with one of the companies on the list (and they’re not a pharmaceutical company). They deserved to be there.</p>
<p>DougBetsy, why does that magazine make you cringe? Not sure if you are male or female, or a working mom… Our pediatrician’s office has it, and although I never subscribed, I usually pick it up and read it there. I am ALWAYS looking for tips on how to blend my full time work and parenting; it certainly isnt anything I learned from my own mom, who stayed at home. I don’t want or use all of their ideas, but if I get even one tip for how to make our lives run more smoothly at home, or one insight into how to be more effective at work, that is good. Like I said, I take these lists with a grain of salt. But in general I have found the magazine useful, and there is nothing cringe-worthy about it that I can see compared to hundreds of other publications.</p>
<p>Like I said, intparent, I can’t put my finger on it. Sorry. </p>
<p>I am a mom and I have worked full-time since before my kids were born.</p>