2013 NAFE Top 50 Companies for Executive Women List

Industry

State

Top 10. There’s no better way to learn about a business than by listening to its leaders share their insights. This consumer products company provides its female executives with job-related training...

Prudential Financial

Top 10. Female executives at this financial services firm flock to its national mentoring and networking programs as well as its 10 individual career development groups, which feature a variety of...

Sodexo

This food and facilities management services company offers a healthy menu of opportunities. Its nine-month Emerging Leaders program helps those who are managers to prepare for profit-and-loss...

Starcom MediaVest Group

Women comprise 70% of this media agency’s workforce and represent 50% of its highest earners and top executives with profit-and-loss responsibility. In addition to CEO Laura Desmond, prominent...

State Farm

Top 10. With the recent launch of the career development website State Farm University, this insurance company gave its employees a centralized location tHRough which they could engage in virtual...

Target

Helping to chart a course for this retail giant, women represent 36% of its board of directors and 45% of its executive committee, with members of the latter ranging from Kathryn A. Tesija, executive...

Texas Instruments

Despite being part of a male-dominated industry, this semiconductor and educational technology company stands out for its efforts to attract and promote women, who represent 12% of its executives...

Verizon Communications

When this broadband and communications company held its first Global Women’s Summit in 2011, management quickly saw how the event motivated its aspiring and current female executives. Hoping to...

Viacom

Prominent women abound at this media-content company, where 32% of all corporate executives are female, including Debra Lee, chairman and CEO of BET Networks, and Cyma Zarghami, the president of the...

WellPoint

Smart succession planning makes all the difference at this health benefits company, where 57% of managers and executives are female, including the presidents and general managers of its Kentucky, New...

Wyndham Worldwide

Ambitious women know that professional education is like rocket fuel for an executive career, and this hospitality company offers dozens of ways to obtain it, from leadership courses provided via its...