Improving your education is easy when you work for this secondary mortgage lender, which boasts its own university with business and management courses and sponsors approved employees who want to obtain their master’s degrees in finance or technology management. Its Women’s Cohort program brings participants at the director level together with female officers (who share thoughts on everything from finding mentors to work-family balance) and treats them to thought-provoking seminars on industry topics. Female directors and vice presidents who take part in its Leadership Talent Review undergo 360° self-assessments, draw up personalized career plans and meet with talent managers.

CEO: Donald H. Layton

Senior VP, HR: Scott Coolidge

% of senior managers who are women: 38%

% of corporate executives who are women: 18%

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

% 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: 25%

% of executives who report directly to the CEO who are women: 33%

% of the members of the board of directors who are women: 18%