In her 23 years with this financial services company, Deanna Strable has risen from actuarial assistant to senior vice president of its U.S. Insurance Solutions business, where she is responsible for $2.9 billion in revenues annually. Stories like hers encourage other employees to aim high, and women have come to occupy 30% of senior management roles while filling the same percentage of slots in the company’s executive Leadership Program. They’re also the majority of those receiving formal mentoring here, and slightly dominate the 10-month mentoring programs offered by 10 employee resource groups.

Chairman, President & CEO: Larry Zimpleman

Senior VP, HR & Corporate Services: Ralph Eucher

% of senior managers who are women: 38%

% of corporate executives who are women: 30%

% of the top 10% of the company’s earners who are women: 31%

% of corporate executives with profit-and-loss responsibility who are women: 33%

% 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: 30%

% of the members of the board of directors who are women: 33%