Merck Earns Place on 2018 List of Top Companies for Executive Women
KENILWORTH, N.J., March 9, 2018 /3BL Media/ -- The National Association for Female Executives (NAFE) named Merck as one of its 2018 NAFE Top Companies for Executive Women. The award recognizes U.S. corporations where women have significant clout to make the decisions that affect their company’s future and its bottom line. The NAFE Top 70 Companies are featured in the April/May issue of Working Mother.
Throughout Merck’s 125-year history, women have helped advance the company’s mission to improve human and animal health while advancing scientific research. We’re committed to developing, promoting and retaining female executives, as one of the ways we support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 5 focused on gender equality.
Merck promotes and values diversity and inclusion at every level of the organization — starting with the Office of the CEO — and strives for inclusiveness in every aspect of work. Learn more about Global Diversity & Inclusion at Merck in our Corporate Responsibility Report.
About Merck
For more than a century, Merck, a leading global biopharmaceutical company known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, has been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world’s most challenging diseases. Through our prescription medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies and animal health products, we work with customers and operate in more than 140 countries to deliver innovative health solutions. We also demonstrate our commitment to increasing access to health care through far-reaching policies, programs and partnerships. Today, Merck continues to be at the forefront of research to advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and communities around the world - including cancer, cardio-metabolic diseases, emerging animal diseases, Alzheimer’s disease and infectious diseases including HIV and Ebola. For more information, visit www.merck.com and connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
