Helping female employees avoid roadblocks in their careers is a priority for this telecommunications company, which emphasizes the need for management to have early career conversations with women and to investigate ways to support their professional mobility. At present, women are 49% of the managers and senior managers in its Accelerated Development Program, which strengthens their odds of entering the executive pipeline. They also take part in the Executive Advocate Program, which pairs top female talent at the senior manager level with senior officers who help them amp up their responsibilities at the company.

Chairman & CEO: Randall Stephenson

Senior Executive VP, HR: Bill Blase

% of senior managers who are women: 27%

% of corporate executives who are women: 21%

% of the top 10% of the company’s earners who are women: 29%

% of corporate executives with profit-and-loss responsibility who are women: 25%

% of the executives running divisions with revenues of more than a billion dollars who are women: 30%

% of executives who report directly to the CEO who are women: 10%

% of the members of the board of directors who are women: 17%