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General Mills

Fortune 1000 rank: 214
Best Companies rank: 69
No. of U.S. employees: 17,090
Most common salaried job: Retail Sales Representative
Avg. pay in that job: $43,922

What makes it so great? Of the women who went on maternity leave last year, 96% returned, helped by a new policy enabling them to phase back to work on a part-time basis for eight weeks.

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Last updated April 24 2008: 10:56 AM ET

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