In Pictures: Beyond Marissa Mayer -Top women in tech

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.