This academic medical center’s Talent Review process readies high-potential employees for future executive positions and frequently offers them stretch assignments, coaching or job rotations to help them grow. (In 2011, 66% of those who benefited were women.) Aspiring execs also take advantage of clinical ladder and leadership programs, special advanced degree offerings, tuition aid (worth $5,250 annually) and courses at Northwestern University (where tuition is waived, up to $3,000 per year). To try a different position, employees may look into the Interim Program, which allows them to fill in for absent managers and senior managers, diversifying their experience.

President & CEO: Dean Harrison

Senior VP, HR: Dean Manheimer

% of senior managers who are women: 63%

% of corporate executives who are women: 28%

% of the top 10% of the company’s earners who are women: 68%

% of corporate executives with profit-and-loss responsibility who are women: 28%

% of the executives running divisions with revenues of more than a billion dollars who are women: 0%

% of executives who report directly to the CEO who are women: 29%

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