SIngapore-based C-Suite talent consulting firm House of Rose Professional Pte Ltd recently released their 2025 Break The Ceiling Touch The Sky 101 Best Companies For Women In Leadership Index (BTC 101 Global Index), listing 101 top global companies for women in leadership. The list has been created based on the measurement of gender diversity across the boards and executive leadership teams of the world’s 500 largest companies based on annual revenue.* The list features 105 companies in the 2025 BTC 101 Global Index as some companies are tied and placed in the same rank.
The BTC 101 Global Index is the annual study for House of Rose Professional’s Mission 2029 for a Better World – the 10-year global initiative which kicked off in mid-2020 to shape a better world via better gender balance, better leadership and better business at the world’s largest companies. For the 2025 BTC 101 Global Index, over 10,000 executives were reviewed across the boards and executive management teams of the world’s 500 largest companies to arrive at a composite gender diversity score for each of the 500 companies.
The results of the review found that one in three board executives and exec team executives of the lowest ranked company on the 2025 BTC 101 Global Index is female – up from 1 in 5 just 5 years ago! The top 10 companies on the Index all enjoy near perfect gender balance across their board and leadership teams.
If you’re looking for further opportunities – whether in C-suite positions or just advancing your career to the next step, it might be worth being on the lookout for openings at these companies that place importance on gender diversity and equality at the workplace for women. Below, we list down the companies that made the list, divided into a few categories for easy reference.
Editor’s note: Respectfully, we are aware that many of the companies listed here are on current BDS – Boycott, Diversify, Sanctions – lists, however they are listed in this article in particular in the interest of disclosing current/contemporary data. Additionally, we are not in the business of telling our audience how to act, but rather present the facts to inform readers who may use the information to their discretion based on their own individual situations, which we totally understand.
1-10 Top Global Companies For Women In Leadership
Based on the BTC 101 Global Index, these are the top 10 companies globally which have over 20% female presence on the board and management team of each company. Additionally, all companies have at least 3 female members in the executive management team. The 10 top global companies for women in leadership are as follows, where the countries or areas the companies operate in are noted after their names.
- Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association) – USA
- Woolworths Group – Australia
- National Australia Bank – Australia
- BP, Johnson & Johnson, GSK – All global
- Best Buy – USA & Canada
- AXA – Global
- Societe Generale – Global
- UniCredit Group – Europe
- BHP Group – Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Ecuador, Japan, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Peru, Singapore, UK, USA
- J. Sainsbury – UK
11-20- Top Global Companies For Women In Leadership
The following are companies ranked from number 11 to 20 on the BTC 101 Global Index, also based on the same criteria as above:-
11. Mercadona – Spain & Portugal
12. Starbucks – Global
13. JD.com – China
14. Engie – Global
15. Coca-Cola – Global
16. AstraZeneca – Global
17. Compass Group – Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Qatar, USA
18. Zurich Insurance Group – Global
19. BNP Paribas – Global
20. Roche Group – Global
The full list of the Companies that made it to the Top 101 ranks can be viewed at www.houseofroseprofessional.com
Top Global Companies For Women In Leadership In Malaysia
For those in Malaysia, you might be interested to know that these are 30 of the top global companies for women in leadership that operate in the country. So, if you’re thinking of making a career move and are looking to join a global company that has a substantial percentage of female leadership – and thus a higher probability of you as a female to be considered for a leadership position that you are qualified for, these are the companies you can consider.
- BP, Johnson & Johnson, GSK
- AXA
- BHP Group
- Starbucks
- Engie
- Coca-Cola
- AstraZeneca
- Zurich Insurance Group
- BNP Paribas
- Roche Group
- Shell
- Prudential Alliance
- Allianz
- Nike
- Standard Chartered
- Mercedes-Benz Group
- Cisco Systems, AIG
- HP
- Nestle
- Dell Technologies
- Microsoft
- Procter & Gamble
- Bank of Nova Scotia
- Unilever
- HSBC Holdings
- Intel
- Apple
Select Companies With Presence in Malaysia From The Next 50 Top Global Brands For Women In Leadership
If none of the companies in the lists above seemed interesting enough, we have listed 22 more companies listed from the full BTC 101 Global Index list of global companies for women in leadership that have offices in Malaysia, as per below.
- Volvo
- Abbott Laboratories
- Walt Disney
- American Express
- FedEx
- L’Oreal
- Bank of America
- China Life Insurance
- Goldman Sachs
- Meta Platforms
- 3M, Nvidia
- Air France-KLM Group
- Boeing
- Sysco
- PepsiCo
- ING Group
- Mondelez International, Visa
- Home Depot
- Alibaba Group
- Accenture
If you have been considering a career change, we hope the BTC 101 Global Index list as well as the break down lists have been useful for you, and wish you all the best!
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Notes:
*Fortune Global 500 2024, Aug 2024.
All observations must be viewed in context that the smallest Company for 2024 in the FG500 had an annual revenue of USD 32 Billion. Smaller Companies are not considered for the 2025 BTC 101 Global Index but can easily benchmark using the HORP Gender Balance Benchmark Sheet.
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