2012 Best Companies for Multicultural Women List

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State

Whenever this financial services firm needs to fill important roles, it mandates that recruiters include multicultural candidates on their proffered lists. In 2011, diverse women earned 29% of all...

KPMG

Getting a shot at the big clients is vital when you work for this audit, tax and advisory services firm, which has instituted a program that ensures its multicultural associates are rotated around to...

Macy’s

The right connections at work can be as important to advancement as the right programs—something this retail company recognizes with the events hosted by its eight diversity councils and 14 employee...

New York Life Insurance

When this life insurance firm wanted to know what it could do to increase the representation of women in its highest positions, it went straight to the source, convening a group of female executives...

The New York Times Company

Women are a third of all officers at this media company and make up nearly half of those who participate in its management and leadership training programs. Multicultural leaders have their own...

Northern Trust

Despite having just 8,392 U.S. employees, this financial services firm hosted more than 200 diversity-related events last year, many of which were spearheaded by its nine business resource groups and...

PepsiCo

Multicultural women comprise less than 10% of all employees at this consumer goods company, but it has instituted several programs to help them grow. Its new Accelerator Initiative finds industry...

Procter & Gamble

Nurturing great talent is a priority for this consumer products company, which currently hosts finance camps for multicultural college students, participates in dozens of diversity career fairs and...

PwC

Diverse women have plenty of formal development programs to choose from at this audit, tax and advisory services firm—but when you ask many of them what really made a difference, you’ll hear about...

State Farm Insurance

Looking for leadership roles, education and training opportunities and a sense of community at work? That’s what draws more than 18,000 employees of this insurance company to its employee resource...

Verizon Communications

Employees from as far away as England and Australia were among the 1,400+ attendees at this broadband and communications company’s Global Women’s Summit last year. The event hammered home the...

Walmart

Major promotions for multicultural women got employees of this retailer cheering earlier this year, when Gisel Ruiz, who is Hispanic, was named executive vice president and chief operating officer...