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TRW Placed Among '100 Best Companies'

1 September 1999

TRW Placed Among '100 Best Companies' in Working Mother Magazine Survey; Company Wins Honor For Third Consecutive Year

    CLEVELAND--Sept. 1, 1999--TRW Inc., for the third consecutive year, was named by Working Mother magazine as one of the nation's 100 best companies for working mothers in the American workplace.
    According to Working Mother magazine's 14th annual report on the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers, companies are becoming more sophisticated about work/life policies as they continue to gain bottom-line benefits from them.
    Working Mother magazine has selected TRW for this honor six times during the 1990s. The most recent issue of the magazine rates companies on six criteria: pay; opportunities for women to advance; child care; flexibility; work/life supports, such as counseling and support groups for employees; and other family-friendly benefits, such as extended maternity and parental leave, as well as adoption aid and elder care.
    Over the years, TRW has developed a wide range of programs and benefits, tailored to the employees at its individual locations, that respond to family and community needs. Among them are flexible work schedules, such as telecommuting and job sharing; dependent care assistance for children and elders; managerial and professional development programs; assistance with re-entry into the work force in a technical field; rewards for innovation and achievement; financial support for education; scholarship programs; stock savings plans; employee fitness programs and centers; and a worldwide health assistance program. The TRW contributions programs support nonprofit community organizations, educational institutions, and arts and cultural organizations where the company's employees work and reside.
    TRW was one of the first high-tech corporations to become involved in early childhood education as a corporate sponsor of the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts. TRW sponsors the stART smART program in which professional performing artists share techniques with local area preschool and kindergarten teachers through in-class workshops.
    Complete survey results, including in-depth analysis of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers, can be found in the October 1999 issue of Working Mother and on its Web site www.workingmother.com. A description of the programs provided to working mothers by TRW can be found on the Web at www.workingmother.com/100best/companies/trw.html
    TRW provides advanced technology products and services for the global automotive, aerospace and information systems markets. The company's news releases are available on TRW's corporate Web site www.trw.com.