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" \n Everyone that gets hired goes through diversity and acceptance training. While many companies take a reactionary approach to male/female issues such as sexual harassment, offering training only when there&amp;#039;s been a problem, P&amp;amp;amp;G requires that each new employee gets trained in the importance of being supportive and accepting of coworkers. Essentially, the attitude is baked in from the beginning and it&amp;#039;s led to an incredibly low rate\u2014and in some cases, a total lack\u2014of complaints about things like a male boss being inappropriate or someone favoring a male employee by assigning him plum projects over a female employee. Women are offered key positions. Forty-two percent of the current management positions at P&amp;amp;amp;G are held by women, and nearly half of new management hires are as well. The company prides itself on pushing women to climb the ladder and go for top spots, and that&amp;#039;s evidenced by the fact that the percentage of female presidents has grown from 8 percent in 2000 to just under 30 percent today. They try to work only with companies who are female-friendly. P&amp;amp;amp;G works with a ton of outside vendors and has a lot of external partnerships (like ad agencies and suppliers) and it would be easy to just go with the company that has the best track record or the most competitive pricing. But rather than just defaulting to those options, P&amp;amp;amp;G looks at the diversity of the company, including how many women work there and if they value their female employees. The benefit is two-fold: It encourages other companies to step up their game in terms of creating a femme-friendly workplace. And it ensures that women working at P&amp;amp;amp;G don&amp;#039;t find themselves dealing with male-only vendors who aren&amp;#039;t accepting of the opposite gender. Employees get to make their own schedules. Prepare yourself for a case of the envies. P&amp;amp;amp;G offers flex-time, meaning that, as long as she&amp;#039;s logging the required number of hours and getting her work done, an employee can start her day as early or as late as she wants. This is a huge perk for working moms who want to design their schedules around their kids&amp;#039; school days or after school activities. There&amp;#039;s a nurse available 24/7. P&amp;amp;amp;G has a unique program called Blueprint for Healthy Living. It offers employees access to a nurse any time of day or night\u2014whether it&amp;#039;s during the workweek or even on weekends. And even those who work 20 hours a week get access to the program and health insurance coverage\u2014benefits that are very rare for part-timers at other companies. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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