Top Des Moines an option for mothers
If Jennifer Lund mountain was a physical therapist in Los Angeles, was itself to work 50 hours per week, with little time for her two babies at home.
On the other side of the country, Washington, DC, another working mother, Nora Everett, found his career as a lawyer had been an outlet for their energy and all, she missed their children.
The two women thought about finishing his career. But they found another solution - Moving in Des Moines.
Des Moines, with a population of 200000, perhaps strangely, as a goal for women construction, quarries of the rapid development of cities in the east and west coast, but ABC News found dozens of women, has had major cities for a better quality of life.
“There is always an exciting, sophisticated career. This is not only exclusively for the coast,” says Everett. “But you can also in real time - the quality and time - with your children.”
The two women had husbands in a flexible career, was able to follow them.
Not only maize and Pig Farms
Most Americans would not be surprised if Iowa is the nation No. 1 producer of pigs and corn. But they may not know that Des Moines, Iowa’s capital, is the nation No. 2 hub for insurance - an industry which employs a large number of women.
It is the Company industry - and other sectors such as publishing and accounting that tend to occupy a large number of women - who have helped make Des Moines an attractive place for women .
Seventy per cent of leaders in Des Moines are women - the highest percentage in the USA. That compared to 57 percent in Los Angeles, 49 percent in New York and Chicago 53 percent, according to a study by Business Week Magazine.
Des Moines companies ranging from the track to win the women. Principal Financial Group, where Everett is now working as an agent, she says do almost everything related to the hiring of workers and keep them. The company offers on-site bank tellers, fitness classes, including rooms for nursing mothers on their chest-pumps.
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