

Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc. NAFE is a division of Working Mother Media, owned by the Bonnier Corporation. provides up-to-date information, community for women in business and access to member benefits. Working Mother magazine publishes the annual NAFE Top Companies list. The National Association for Female Executives (NAFE), founded in 1972, serves 20,000 members nationwide with networking, tools and solutions to strengthen and grow their careers and businesses. NAFE also separately names the Top 10 companies in the non-profit sector. In order to be eligible for the NAFE Top Companies survey, entrants must have a minimum of 1,000 employees, two women on the Board of Directors and be a public or private company. The vetting process includes tracking access and usage of programs and policies that promote the advancement of women as well as the training and accountability of managers in relation to the number of women who advance. The 2015 NAFE Top Companies application includes more than 200 questions on female representation at all levels, especially the corporate officer and profit-and-loss ranks.

"We remain committed to advancing women in leadership as a key component of reaching our business objectives. "Cardinal Health believes that an emphasis on diversity and inclusion helps ensure we have the best talent, fosters innovation and ultimately creates competitive advantage," said George Barrett, chairman and chief executive officer of Cardinal Health.
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The full list of this year's winners is posted on and. This is the fourth consecutive year that Cardinal Health has been named to the list. Top companies continue to support advancement programs the percentage of companies that offer job rotation, succession planning and career counseling increased from 2014." Subha Barry, Vice President and General Manager, Working Mother Media, says, "This year's winners work hard to nurture corporate cultures that advance and promote women. Female representation at the CEO level held steady at 10% over the last four years at NAFE Top Companies-that's twice the percentage at the Fortune 500.Fifty-eight percent of the 2015 NAFE Top Companies now offer sponsorship programs, compared with 42% in 2013 98% offer job rotations, up from 80% two years ago.Half of the winning companies now have four or more women board directors at the NAFE Top 50, 29% of board members are women, compared with just 19% at the S&P 500.Forty percent of top earners at the 2015 NAFE Top 50 are women, up from 35% last year.The percentage of women who hold board seats at the 2015 NAFE Top Companies grew to 29% from 27% last year.

"The 2015 NAFE Top Companies demonstrate their understanding that having women in top executive posts increases the bottom line."Ĭompared with last year's list, findings for the 2015 NAFE Top 50 Companies reveal that: "We're counting the numbers of women in senior management at America's top companies and are happy to find that companies are responding to the competition," says Dr. DUBLIN, Ohio, Ma/PRNewswire/ - Cardinal Health has been named one of the 2015 "NAFE Top Companies for Executive Women" by the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE), which honors American corporations that identify and promote successful women.
