Formal mentoring initiatives offered by more than a dozen affinity groups and lines of business provide counsel to employees of this massive bank, where women are 36% of the senior management team and 47% of U.S. managers and officials. The Women’s Exchange, a 47-chapter program in the Global Wealth and Investment Management division, has seen its mentoring program grow tenfold to keep up with demand, and there’s a new women’s initiative in the Global Markets and Risk Technology & Operations line of business. Women comprised 32% of employees in executive succession programs, 38% of those receiving executive coaching and 49% of those in leadership and management training in 2011.

CEO: Brian Moynihan

Global Head of HR: Andrea Smith 

% of senior managers who are women: 32%

% of corporate executives who are women: 27%

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

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

% 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: 36%

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