In Pictures: Beyond Marissa Mayer -Top women in tech
With ex-Google honcho Marissa Mayer taking the reins of Yahoo this week, she joins other prominent females in leadership roles at some of the tech industry's largest companies
Marissa Mayer being appointed president and CEO of Yahoo this week marks another female being named to a prominent position in a leading technology company. HP, IBM and Canonical already have female CEOs, while women hold senior leadership positions at organizations such as Facebook, Cisco and Oracle. Still though, a study by Harvey Nash recently found that fewer than 10% of tech CEOs are women, which is actually an improvement upon the 4% of Fortune 1000 CEOs that are female. Watch Mayer talk about the women in technology here, and click through our slideshow to see some of the top women in technology.
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