Best companies for women executives in 2016

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) – A number of recent studies have drawn the same conclusion: There’s still a stunning lack of women in corporate leadership and it will take decades for women to achieve parity with men in senior roles.

But the situation is better for women at some companies than others. The National Association for Female Executives has identified the 60 U.S. corporations that do the best job of developing and nurturing women leaders. They all have executive coaching, affinity groups and programs that identify women with high potential for management.

They also, on average, have more women in positions of leadership today than is the case at the average mega-corporation.

For instance, women represent 28% of board members among the top 60 companies on NAFE’s list versus just 19% at S&P 500 companies.

The percent of CEOs who are women, meanwhile, has fallen over the past year to 8% from 10%. But that’s still running ahead of the 5% who run Fortune 500 companies.

Overall, women represent 51% of all employees on average at the top 60 firms, and they account for 39% of the biggest earners.

The top 10 companies from NAFE’s list, in alphabetical order below, represent a broad swath of industries. (WorkingMother.com has the complete list of all 60 top corporations here.)

Percentage of each group who are women

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