Top 10. Female role models abound at this health care company, where women represent 42% of the executives in profit-and-loss positions and comprise one third of the board of directors. For further inspiration, employees attend “fireside chats” hosted by Women Leaders in Action, an internal affinity group, at which female power players share their workplace experiences and advice. Career counsel is also available through a wide range of formal mentoring programs; at an annual fair, senior executives offer perspective on the best ways to maximize mentoring relationships. Lunchtime workshops help women learn about the inner workings of the industry. 

Chairman & CEO: Miles D. White

Senior VP, HR: Stephen Fussell

% of senior managers who are women: 42%

% of corporate executives who are women: 23%

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

% of corporate executives with profit-and-loss responsibility who are women: 15%

% of the executives running divisions with revenues of more than a billion dollars who are women: 17%

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

% of the members of the board of directors who are women: 33%