When it comes to hiring, retaining and promoting women, this health-care company constantly strives to outdo itself: the number of women in executive management has grown by 84% over the last 10 years. What’s more, female employees represent nearly half of all managers and score the majority of those open positions. Women who move into senior roles frequently participate in an internal profit-and-loss mentoring group: “It’s providing me with a baseline of knowledge, and it’s exposing me to a new network of colleagues I otherwise would not have had the opportunity to meet,” says senior quality engineer Denise Storck-Schattner. New directors make valuable contacts in the Director foundation program, which outlines the company’s expectations and increases their odds of success.

Chairman & CEO: Miles D. White

Senior VP, HR: Stephen Fussell

% of senior managers who are women: 42%

% of corporate executives who are women: 18%

% of promotions to manager, senior manager and corporate executive positions that went to women: 52%

% of the top 10% of the company’s earners who are women: 35%

% of corporate executives with profit-and-loss responsibility who are women: 8%

% of the executives running divisions with revenues of more than a billion dollars who are women: 13%

% of executives who report directly to the CEO who are women: 20%

% of the members of the board of directors who are women: 14%

% of female workforce participating in mentoring: 12%