2013 NAFE Top 50 Companies for Executive Women List

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State

Top 10. Female role models abound at this health care company, where women represent 42% of the executives in profit-and-loss positions and comprise one third of the board of directors. For further...

Aetna

Women are 65% of the employees who’ve been categorized as “high-potential” by this diversified health care benefits company, which means that they follow development plans that capitalize on their...

Allstate Insurance

It’s smart to invest in a career at this financial services and insurance company, where women benefit from a wealth of mentoring and leadership programs, a dedicated network for female leaders and...

American Express

Supporting the career growth of 17,100 female employees is no trivial matter, which is why the U.S. arm of this financial services company maintains a multifaceted initiative called Women in the...

Aon

There’s no shortage of inspiring female executives at this global risk management, insurance and human resources consulting firm, where leading lights include CFO Christa Davies and Aon Hewitt CEO...

AstraZeneca

Top 10. Employees work hard at this pharmaceutical company, and management wants to ensure they take time for themselves. So in 2011, the company established global guidelines that create an...

AT&T

Helping female employees avoid roadblocks in their careers is a priority for this telecommunications company, which emphasizes the need for management to have early career conversations with women...

Bank of America

Formal mentoring initiatives offered by more than a dozen affinity groups and lines of business provide counsel to employees of this massive bank, where women are 36% of the senior management team...

BDO USA

From speed networking sessions to wine tastings and poker tournaments, the ConnectIn events hosted by the Women’s Initiative at this accounting and consulting firm have long given participants the...

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Boosting the number of women in its upper ranks is clearly important to this biopharmaceutical company: An impressive 40% of its corporate executive hires and 39% of its senior manager hires last...

Cardinal Health

There’s a bright future ahead for women at this health care system, where they represent 40% of the executives who are responsible for more than $1 billion in annual revenues. As they climb to the...

Cisco Systems

When this information technology and networking company launched its Business Leader Forum last spring, it gave its senior executives a career development program that would help them become truly...

Colgate-Palmolive

Women at this consumer products company have many opportunities to enhance their skills, which some do by trying their hands at challenging short- or long-term assignments, working in a different U.S...