10 large enterprises for women in 2016

Are you looking to build a career within a company known for providing great opportunities for women in leadership roles? We have found a list of the companies under investigation to do just that.

The National Association for Exectuives females (NAFE), a division of Working Mother magazine editor of Working Mother Media, has released its annual compilation of 60 companies that have proven themselves for women leaders fantastic environments. Each offers a great atmosphere for women to advance to the top positions and has a success story to prove it. Check out our slideshow above to see the best of them.

list of NAFE was compiled by putting more than 200 questions to major companies regarding female representation at all levels, monitoring of access and use of programs and policies that promote the advancement of women, as well as training and the liability of directors in relation to the number of women advance. Companies in the top 60 had to have more than 1,000 employees and have at least two women on the board

More than half of the Top 60 of NAFE has at least four women on their boards of directors. An average of 28% of the members of the board of directors are women, compared with 19% in the S & P Companies. NAFE found that only 8% of companies on their list were run by a general manager, the female is 2% less than last year. Women on the list of Best Companies NAFE last year received 44% of the promotions director level and above, most at the managerial level. However, men still receive most promotions at all levels.

Some of the bright spots in the compilation of 2016 NAFE include public relations agency based in Missouri FleishmannHillard, whose 1,600 employees, over 65% are women. Corporate company executives, 47% are women. An insurance company based in Massachusetts MassMutual most 7,000 employees are women, as are 33% of its board of directors. About 65% of the 8,700 workers are women L'Oreal, and therefore is more than half of their senior managers.

NAFE President Betty Spence says companies on the list are to be commended for their efforts, but the advancement of women in the business world leaves much to be desired. One area where there is a lack of female representation, he insists, is the realm of executive positions "profit and loss" leadership including the authority to spend company money as they see fit, without prior approval. "23% of the jobs of P & L in our NAFE 60 are held by women," says Spence. "We have companies that are doing really fabulously :. FleishmanHillard it has more than half, MassMutual has 50%, Target is 39%" However, among the world's leading companies, P & L positions are largely in hands of men.

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