Top 10. In a recent employee survey, 81% of the women who work for this audit, tax and advisory services firm said they had opportunities for learning and professional development. Efforts to accelerate their advancement nonetheless ramped up in 2011, as the leaders behind the firm’s Women’s Advisory Board fanned out to offices across the country, sharing with female employees updates on their existing mentoring and sponsorship initiatives, and soliciting ideas from the local chapters of the nationwide women’s network. The firm’s executive Leadership Institute for Women also hosted virtual monthly meetings and on-site educational sessions.

Chairman & CEO: John Veihmeyer

Vice Chair, HR & Communications: Bruce Pfau

% of senior managers who are women: 37%

% of corporate executives who are women: 18%

% of the top 10% of the company’s earners who are women: 19%

% of corporate executives with profit-and-loss responsibility who are women: 18%

% of the executives running divisions with revenues of more than a billion dollars who are women: 33%

% of executives who report directly to the CEO who are women: 14%

% of the members of the board of directors who are women: 24%