Keeping women engaged as they progress in their careers is a special focus for this insurance company, where they represent 36% of all employees at the assistant vice-president level and above (and more than half of all such hires). Its Women’s Leadership Network, launched by a task force of female executives in 2012, brings in industry speakers to inspire them and maintains programs that assist with their career development. The new nine-month Partners Mentoring Program also finds senior executives (including Chairman, President and CEO Roger Crandall) offering counsel to AVPs and VPs, with women making up half of those mentored.

Chairman, President & CEO: Roger Crandall

Executive VP, HR: Debra Palermino

% of senior managers who are women: 21%

% of corporate executives who are women: 36%

% of the top 10% of the company’s earners who are women: 33%

% of corporate executives with profit-and-loss responsibility who are women: 50%

% of the executives running divisions with revenues of more than a billion dollars who are women: 50%

% of executives who report directly to the CEO who are women: 36%

% of the members of the board of directors who are women: 25%