Flexible work schedules are becoming increasingly popular at Procter & Gamble. Depending on the situation, employees may arrange (with their managers) to flex or compress their schedules or telecommute.

Top 10. There’s no better way to learn about a business than by listening to its leaders share their insights. This consumer products company provides its female executives with job-related training taught by its CEO, vice chairs and presidents, and helps them forge mentoring relationships with senior executives and members of the board of directors. Up-and-coming female employees also have access to valuable networking and coaching opportunities that can help advance them into key positions, largely due to the efforts of the company’s Corporate Women’s Leadership Team, comprised of senior female managers from every business function.

Chairman, President & CEO: Robert McDonald

Global HR Officer: Mark Biegger

% of senior managers who are women: 34%

% 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: –

% 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: 29%

% of the members of the board of directors who are women: 45%