Scripps employees are pampered with six free chair massages per year.

This San Diego, CA, health-care system employs a Life Cycle approach to careers that allows its 86% female workforce to adjust their job responsibilities as family needs change. With five hospitals and 21 clinics and outpatient centers, employees seeking less demanding work or proximity to home can easily transfer to other sites; last year, three quarters of those who did so were women. Flextime and compressed hours are used by 80% of workers. Anyone logging 16 hours per week now earns health benefits—down from 20 hours in 2007. Employees vote on which flex schedules their department should use, but human resources and management will fine-tune arrangements in unique situations. Anyone desiring more than six weeks of unpaid leave can resign and be reinstated in the same or a similar position up to a year later, with no effect on benefits accrued.

President & CEO: Chris Van Gorder

Corporate Senior VP, HR: Victor Buzachero

Women managers/execs: 69%

Women among top earners: 74%

Women on board of directors: 36%

Women corporate executive hires in 2008: 40%

Women participating in management or leadership training in the past year: 76%

Women participating in formalized executive succession planning last year: 76%

Women promoted last year who utilized a formal flexible work arrangement: 35%

Formal compensation policies reward managers who help women advance: Yes