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Top 25 financial services employers for women: Who is on Forbes’ 2021 list?

Forbes has just released its annual ranking of America’s ‘Best Employers for Women’.

With American women having lost 3.8 million jobs since the pandemic began, scrutiny around gender equity, female representation at executive levels, and misconduct in the workplace is intensifying.

“Though women’s labour force participation rate has edged up slightly to 57.5% from its pandemic-era low of 57.2% in April 2020, it remains well below the 59.2% recorded in February 2020,”, notes Forbes.

To spotlight the companies liked most by female workers, Forbes surveyed 50,000 Americans – including 30,000 women, working for businesses with at least 1,000 employees – and used the findings to generate a ranking.

Here’s who made it onto the 2021 ‘Best Employers for Women’ list from the banking and financial services industry. Notable firms include Paypal, which ranked 47th, and consumer banking newbie, Synchrony Financial, which came in at 256th.

	Rank	Name	Employees	Year founded
1	9	Fidelity Investments	41,329	1946
2	23	Quicken Loans	18,000	1985
3	26	Principal Financial Group	10,500	1879
4	32	American Express	22,700	1850
5	47	PayPal	26,500	1998
6	82	Citigroup	200,000	1812
7	91	Huntington National Bank	15,664	1866
8	118	Visa	20,500	1958
9	120	Raymond James Financial	14,800	1962
10	149	JPMorgan Chase	153,210	2000
11	161	Edward Jones	50,000	1922
12	170	Vanguard	17,300	1975
13	189	PNC Financial Services	51,257	1845
14	193	City National Bank	5,300	1954
15	196	Discover Financial Services	17,600	1985
16	213	Nelnet	6,199	1996
17	224	Comercia	7,429	1849
18	229	Ally Financial	8,700	1919
19	230	BMO Harris Bank	43,360	1882
20	231	Fidelity National Financial	23,436	1847
21	233	Bank of America	174,660	1904
22	250	Navy Federal Credit Union	15,000	1933
23	256	Synchrony Financial	16,500	2003
24	260	TD Bank	27,000	1855
25	266	UBS	71,551	1862