Great Place to Work® UK has just unveiled its 2021 list of Best Workplaces™ for Women. Through an incredibly challenging year, a total of 114 UK-based organisations from a range of industries including housing, financial services, tech, and pharmaceuticals, have earned official recognition for driving an impactful and equitable workplace culture for women. You can view the full list of 141 recipients here.

Top achievers Salesforce, The Sovini Group, Foundation SP and Signify Technology each took first place in the Super Large, Large, Medium and Small size categories respectively.

The list is produced by the UK branch of Great Place to Work® – the global authority on workplace culture. To determine the Best Workplaces™ for Women list, Great Place to Work® UK administered their research-backed Trust Index© employee survey and analysed the responses of UK-based female employees. They found that the organisations where women reported a highly positive workplace experience, had programmes in place that looked to tackle the specific challenges facing women during the pandemic, while addressing the gaps in equal pay and career progression.

To coincide with the Best Workplaces™ for Women list, Great Place to Work® UK has also launched their annual Women at Work publication. Key insights from this year’s publication include:

Quality of life and work: On average, 78% of female employees at Best Workplaces™ reported that their organisation was a ‘psychologically and emotionally healthy place to work.’
Building a culture of trust: 87% of female employees in Best Workplaces™ felt that their ‘management trusts them to do a good job.’
Supporting career growth: Women make up 38% of the senior leadership team in our recognised organisations, versus the proportion of women in FTSE 350 leadership teams only reached 29.4% in 2020.
“We’re delighted to recognise so many great organisations in this fourth year of the UK’s Best Workplaces™ for Women list.” Commented Benedict Gautrey, Managing Director of Great Place to Work® UK. “The issues affecting women in the workplace, particularly what we’ve witnessed in the face of the pandemic including parity of pay and advancement opportunities, continue to be important topics. What our 2021 UK’s Best Workplaces™ for Women clearly show is the positive impact their practices have on business. As a result, they are better able to attract and retain women of talent, encouraging them to develop professionally and personally.”

Great Place to Work® UK hopes that by highlighting the organisations that have prioritised the progress of women at work, other organisations will be inspired to take-up action and do the same.