The National Association of Female Executives (NAFE) has created a list of top 50 companies for executive women. Here’s the list at a glance:
Abbott
Aetna
Allstate Insurance
American Express
AstraZeneca International
Avon Products
Bank of America
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Cisco Systems
Colgate-Palmolive
Dow Chemical
DuPont
Eli Lilly and Company
First Horizon National
Ford Motor Company
General Mills
Hewlett-Packard
HSBC – North America
IBM
Intel
Johnson & Johnson
JPMorgan Chase
Kellogg
Kraft Foods
Liz Claiborne
Macy’s
Marriott International
McGraw-Hill
Merck & Co
MetLife
New York Life Insurance
New York Times
Northern Trust
Office Depot
Pearson
Pfizer
Phoenix Companies
PNC Financial Services Group
Principal Financial Group
Procter & Gamble
Prudential Financial
Sallie Mae
Schering-Plough
State Farm Mutual
Texas Instruments
Verizon Communications
Wal-Mart Stores
WellPoint
Wyeth
Xerox
Non-Profits
Baptist Health South Florida
Bon Secours Richmond Health System
MidMichigan Health
TriHealth
VCU Health System
NAFE uses several evaluators when deciding who the candidates will be. They look for companies who make women a priority and who focus on increasing their pipeline of women executives. NAFE also places emphasis on companies who discover and nurture female talent early on, companies that develop mentoring programs especially for women, and companies that address gender issues and develop leaders among women.
You can see profiles of the top 10 companies here.
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March 31st, 2009 at 10:44 am
Vanessa:
Thank you for putting together the list, but I would caution your readers. Many of those companies are pharma (big pharma) and that arena is a blood bath of layoffs right now. They have been friendly to women, although one wonders is that because the doctors were more likely to see Suzy ShortSkirt than her male counterpart. My clients (medical, laboratory companies)are not biased towards women, but they provide a fantastic, competitive work environment in a very stable industry.
Peggy