Top 10. At IBM, many women take part in a forward-thinking initiative that provides them with strategic assignments, helping them cultivate clients, strengthen their profit-and-loss capabilities and lead more effectively. When management reviews candidates for executive roles, they highlight diverse employees and women for particular discussion. Among the ranks of those promoted recently is Bridget van Kralingen, former general manager of IBM North America, who now serves as senior vice president of global business services.

Chairman, President & CEO: Ginni Rometty

Senior VP, HR: Randy MacDonald

% of senior managers who are women: 27%

% of corporate executives who are women: 23%

% of the top 10% of the company’s earners who are women: 20%

% of corporate executives with profit-and-loss responsibility who are women: 22%

% 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: 14%

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

**Total global workforce