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Booz Allen Named a 2007 Working Mother 100 Best Company By Working Mother Magazine

Posted on: Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 09:00 CDT

NEW YORK, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Working Mother magazine today named Booz Allen Hamilton a 2007 Working Mother Best Company for Working Mothers. Leading a significant and ongoing culture shift, Booz Allen is using company-wide benefits and programs to ensure the retention and advancement of working mothers. Benefits such as flexible scheduling, childcare, paid parental leave, and programs for alumni and children of working mothers are highlighted in Booz Allen's 2007 Working Mother 100 Best Companies profile.

"I am very proud to learn that Booz Allen has been named to Working Mother's 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers list for the ninth consecutive year and even more pleased at the greater recognition of our placing in the Top 10. That we continue to be named to the 100 Best list year after year shows that we are consistent in our efforts to make Booz Allen an employer of choice, and achieving Top 10 status this year is especially gratifying," said Booz Allen's Chairman and CEO Ralph Shrader.

"Every year our winning companies raise the bar for what it means to be an employer of choice for working families," said Carol Evans, CEO and President, Working Mother Media. "Booz Allen not only offers essential benefits like flextime and onsite childcare -- they go above and beyond with a range of best practices and policies to ease the difficulties for working parents and their families. Their supportive culture makes a huge difference to employees who want to be great moms and great workers."

Profiled in the October issue of Working Mother magazine, Booz Allen is celebrated for creating a work environment that is especially hospitable to all women, including working mothers. Booz Allen was selected based on an extensive application of 575 detailed questions about workforce, compensation, child-care and flexibility programs, and leave policies, with particular weight given to flexibility and family-friendly policies.

To view Booz Allen's 2007 Working Mother 100 Best Companies profile, visit http://www.workingmother.com/.

About Booz Allen

Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of management consulting for businesses and governments for more than 90 years. Providing consulting services in strategy, operations, organization and change, and information technology, Booz Allen is the one firm that helps clients solve their toughest problems, working by their side to help them achieve their missions. Booz Allen is committed to delivering results that endure.

With 19,000 employees on six continents, the firm generates annual sales of $4 billion. Booz Allen has been recognized as a consultant and an employer of choice. In 2007, for the third consecutive year, Fortune magazine named Booz Allen one of "The 100 Best Companies to Work For," and for the past nine years, Working Mother has ranked the firm among its "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers."

To learn more about the firm, visit the Booz Allen Web site at http://www.boozallen.com/. To learn more about the best ideas in business, visit http://www.strategy-business.com/, the Web site for strategy+business, a quarterly journal sponsored by Booz Allen.

Booz Allen Hamilton

CONTACT: George Farrar of Booz Allen Hamilton, +1-703-902-4588,farrar_george@bah.com

Web site: http://www.boozallen.com/http://www.strategy-business.com/http://www.workingmother.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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