2012 NAFE Top 50 Companies for Executive Women List

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State

Big things are going on at this professional services firm, where the number of female partners has grown by 48% since 2003. Prominent women include Lynne Doughtie, vice chair, advisory; Nancy...

Kraft Foods

With a presence in nearly every state, this consumer goods company is a great place to climb the career ladder. In fact, female employees earned 46% of all recent promotions to manager, senior...

Macy’s

Women aim high at this retail company, where they fill 40% of spots on the board of directors, earn 54% of top salaries and make up 66% of the executives who take part in succession planning. To...

Marriott International

Success stories are easy to find at this hospitality services company, where former part-time phone operator Erica Qualls now heads the Atlanta Marriott Marquis, and onetime sales manager Erika...

MassMutual Financial Group

Women make up 28% of the corporate executives, 41% of the senior managers and 49% of all the managers at this insurance firm. While many female employees take advantage of a traditional formal...

McKinsey & Co.

To better understand how female employees are flowing into and up the executive pipeline at this management consulting firm, global managing director Dominic Barton compares their high-level...

Merck

Listening to powerful female executives and experts from all over the world speak about their experiences with this pharmaceutical company was a thrill for attendees at its annual Women’s Leadership...

MetLife

Being able to make room in their schedules for family needs strengthens female executives’ commitment to this insurance, annuities and employee benefits provider. At least one out of every seven...

New York Life Insurance

At this life insurance firm, women comprise more than 50% of participants in its mentoring program. Female managers who want to refresh their skill sets can sign up for its 18-month Career Pathway...

The New York Times Company

This media giant made news this past year by appointing Jill Abramson as The New York Times’s first female executive editor. To help other women follow in her wake, it offers a leadership succession...

Northern Trust

The math looks good at this financial services firm. Women serve as presidents of its Personal Financial Services and Operations & Technology businesses, occupy more than half of its corporate...

Office Depot

How serious is this retailer of office supplies and services about training and advancing its employees? It donated $2.8 million to Florida Atlantic University to build the Office Depot Executive...

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

To ensure that its female associates and partners are hired and promoted with increasing frequency, this law firm’s Retention of Women task force reviews all the numbers with the leaders of each of...