By David Zielenziger, International Business Times
Take a look at the senior management of Apple. Every senior executive is male. At IBM, it’s 10 of 12. And at Texas Instruments, it’s 3 of 12.Then consider how many technology companies have a female CEO. There’s Yahoo, of course. Xerox. Hon Hai Precision Industries, Apple’s biggest contract manufacturer. Then it gets more difficult. Indeed, there are a number of top women executives slightly below the CEO level. Safra Catz has been one of Oracle’s presidents since 2004 and started her second stint as CFO this year. Sheryl Sandberg is COO of Facebook after being a VP at Google. Linda Sanford is a Senior VP at IBM for enterprise computing. But why so few at the top? Given that women are more than half the population and that young women now outnumber men in graduate schools, there ought to be more. Surely, as far as consumption of technology products goes, from iPhones to Kindles, women are a huge market.
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