2012 NAFE Top 50 Companies for Executive Women List

Industry

State

When it comes to hiring, retaining and promoting women, this health-care company constantly strives to outdo itself: the number of women in executive management has grown by 84% over the last 10...

Accenture

Getting to mingle with their peers is just one of the things that draws female business leaders to the annual women’s leadership forums held in Silicon Valley and New York by this management...

Allstate Insurance

“You’ve got to help those you lead find their passion,” explains Catherine Brune, a regional president for this financial services and insurance company. That’s the idea behind its popular Leaders as...

American Electric Power

Women forge tight alliances at this utility company, where they make up less than a fifth of employees. Up to 85 gather each month at meetings of the Executive Women’s Network to share challenges and...

American Express

This financial services company offers its employees a dazzling array of training and development programs, but knowing that the most significant lessons often take place outside the classroom led...

AOL

With its purchase of the Huffington Post bringing editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington to its executive team in March 2011, this web services company forged a high-profile relationship with a powerful...

AstraZeneca

In a study on women and advancement, this pharmaceutical company sought to explain why more female employees weren’t moving into its most senior positions. Out of this effort grew its strategy-...

AT&T

Achieving diversity goals is taken seriously by senior executives at this telecommunications company, where their income is affected by progress toward goals for promoting and retaining women. Female...

Bank of America

Women fill 60% of positions at this bank and are steadily rising, earning half of all recent promotions to manager, senior manager and executive. Prospective leaders may be able to take advantage of...

Bristol-Myers Squibb

This biopharmaceutical company carefully tracks the percentage of female employees in its talent pool who are under consideration for positions at the executive level and above, and even rewards...

Cardinal Health

Everything’s coming together for executive women at this health-care services company. Over the past few years, the organization has refined its hiring process so that it now includes a focus on...

Chubb Group of Insurance Companies

Women are 63% of the workforce at this property and casualty insurance company, and active networking groups promote their continued success. The Women’s Development Council offers its many members a...

Cisco

Plenty of programs move women through the pipeline for top jobs at this information technology and networking company. Deliberately sought out to fill positions at the VP level and above, candidates...