World's 10 Best Women-Friendly Companies 2014

BANGALORE: The National Association for Female Executives repeated its annual exercise of investigating into the women-friendliness of top companies and came up with the list of Top 50 Companies for Executive Women. The resulting report pops up some optimistic findings, such as the top 50 companies have 28 percent women executive officers; among the top ten earners of these companies, 35 percent are women and 64 percent women in the top 50 companies participate in career counseling. NAFE highlights 10 companies from among the top 50, which did particularly well in giving women executives a friendly and supportive environment to grow.

IBM: The multinational technology giant is headed by a woman, this fact should speak something abour its woman-friendly outlook. But IBM was hailed as a woman friendly company long before it appointed Ginni Rometty its CEO, Chairperson and President in January 2012.The company found a place in each year’s list of Top 50 Companies for Women Executives since the inception of the list in 1998. It has 433,000 employees and 30 percent of them are women. Women employees occupy 26 percent of senior management positions. IBM has a program named Reconnections Initiative, through which women employees who have left the company are encouraged to return to the company and the company provides customized education program for them.

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