Top 10. Female executives at this financial services firm flock to its national mentoring and networking programs as well as its 10 individual career development groups, which feature a variety of offerings that include leadership forums, speakers and workshops. In a series of panels hosted by the life insurance organization, attendees listen to successful female managers and executives, who share what they’ve learned about career and family and detail the steps they took to accomplish their goals. Women not only represent the majority of employees studying for the firm’s on-site MBA degree but also have increased their participation in executive coaching by at least 40% since 2010.

Chairman & CEO: John Strangfeld

Senior VP, HR: Sharon Taylor

% of senior managers who are women: 33%

% of corporate executives who are women: 27%

% of the top 10% of the company’s earners who are women: 32%

% of corporate executives with profit-and-loss responsibility who are women: 23%

% of the executives running divisions with revenues of more than a billion dollars who are women: 29%

% of executives who report directly to the CEO who are women: 40%

% of the members of the board of directors who are women: 23%