Women fill 60% of positions at this bank and are steadily rising, earning half of all recent promotions to manager, senior manager and executive. Prospective leaders may be able to take advantage of executive coaching and one-on-one and peer mentoring and, if chosen, enroll in the Greater Returns women’s leadership program (offered in partnership with Columbia University). In the Diversity and Inclusion Sponsorship program, senior leaders work with midlevel multicultural women to highlight career strategies and arrange key assignments. Women occupy four of the 12 spots on the CEO’s management team, from Cathy Bessant, global technology and operations executive, to Christine Katziff, corporate general auditor.

CEO: Brian Moynihan

Global Head of HR: Andrea Smith

% of senior managers who are women: 32%

% of corporate executives who are women: 25%

% of promotions to manager, senior manager and corporate executive positions that went to women: 50%

% of the top 10% of the company’s earners who are women: 30%

% of corporate executives with profit-and-loss responsibility who are women: 16%

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

% of executives who report directly to the CEO who are women: 45%

% of the members of the board of directors who are women: 15%

% of female workforce participating in mentoring: --