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Which North Canton Business is Home to One of America’s Best Employers for Women by Forbes?
North Canton, Ohio, is home to America’s most women-friendly businesses, thanks to a Fortune 500 employer. The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR) has been named one of “America’s Best Employers for Women in 2021” by Forbes.
Timken reinforces their commitment to attracting, developing and retaining a talented workforce, including a diverse team of engineers and problem-solvers. The company is known around the world as being an industrial leader in engineered bearings and power transmission products, used by many across the automotive, aerospace, and railroad industries.
According to Forbes:
“American women have lost 3.8 million jobs since the Covid-19 pandemic began. Though women’s labor 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, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Of the many reasons for this trend — including the fact that industries typically dominated by women were among the hardest hit by the economic effects of the coronavirus — research from the U.S. Census Bureau and Federal Reserve shows 32.1% of unemployed women ages 25 to 44 had left the workforce by July 2020 due to…