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From pay equity to women’s rights, important conversations surrounding gender in the workplace have been front and center in 2017 and are expected to continue well into the new year.
As employers strive to create workplaces where women thrive, Comparably has put together a list of the companies doing it best. The companies below were the top-ranked workplaces by female employees as of Nov. 17, 2017, on Comparably.com.
This list is part of Comparably’s Best Places to Work 2017 series.
Check out the results and methodology below.
Best Companies for Women (Large Companies)
(listed alphabetically)

- Accenture (US), San Jose, CA
- Adobe, Roseland, NJ
- ADP, Roseland, NJ
- Aetna, Hartford, CT
- Alorica, Irvine, CA
- Anthem, Inc., Indianapolis, IN
- Apple, Cupertino, CA
- Capital One, McLean, VA
- Chegg, Santa Clara, CA
- Cornerstone OnDemand, Santa Monica, CA
- Costco, Issaquah, WA
- Dropbox, San Francisco, CA
- Facebook, Menlo Park, CA
- GoDaddy, Scottsdale, AZ
- Golden Hippo Media, Woodland Hills, CA
- Google, Mountain View, CA
- H E B, San Antonio, TX
- HCA Holdings, Nashville, TN
- HubSpot, Cambridge, MA
- Indeed, Austin, TX
- Insight, Tempe, AZ
- Insight Global, Atlanta, GA
- Intuit, Mountain View, CA
- Jive Communications, Orem, UT
- Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA
- Lyft, San Francisco, CA
- MAC Cosmetics, New York City, NY
- Marriott, Bethesda, MD
- Microsoft, Redmond, WA
- Netflix, Los Gatos, CA
- Nike, Beaverton, OR
- NVIDIA , Santa Clara, CA
- Pegasystems, Cambridge, MA
- PepsiCo, Purchase, NY
- Petco, San Diego, CA
- Pinterest, San Francisco, CA
- Pluralsight, Farmington, UT
- Publix Super Markets, Lakeland, FL
- Red Hat, Raleigh, NC
- Salesforce, San Francisco, CA
- Slack, San Francisco, CA
- Starbucks, Seattle, WA
- Sunrun, San Francisco, CA
- T-Mobile, Bellevue, WA
- Vertafore, Bellevue, WA
- VMware, Palo Alto, CA
- Workday, Pleasanton, CA
- Workfront, Lehi, UT
- Xero Inc, San Francisco, CA
- Zillow, Seattle, WA
Best Companies for Women (Small/Mid-size Companies)
(listed alphabetically)

- Acorns, Irvine, CA
- Bigcommerce, Austin, TX
- BizMerlin, Vienna, VA
- BoldLeads, Chandler, AZ
- Branch Metrics, Palo Alto, CA
- Chatterkick, Sioux City, Iowa
- Chrome River Technologies, Los Angeles, CA
- Code.org, Seattle, WA
- CreativeLive, Seattle, WA
- EdCast, Mountain View, CA
- Envoy, San Francisco, CA
- Fueled, New York, NY
- Help Scout, Boston, MA
- IMPACT Branding & Design, Wallingford, CT
- Jammber, Chicago, IL
- Mobomo, Vienna, VA
- OmegaFi, Columbus, GA
- Periscope Data, San Francisco, CA
- Pipedrive, New York, NY
- RealSelf, New York, NY
- RevLocal, Granville, OH
- SendGrid, Denver, CO
- Sitetracker, Palo Alto, CA
- Striim, Palo Alto, CA
- XLA, Inc., Vienna, VA
Methodology
Comparably’s “Best Of” lists are derived from sentiment ratings provided by employees who anonymously rated their employers on Comparably.com during the 2017 eligibility period (1/1/17– 11/17/17). There were no fees or costs associated with participating, nor was nomination required. Large companies are considered organizations with more than 500 employees whereas small/mid-size are businesses with less than 500 employees. Companies are listed in alphabetical order.