Pull two names out of a hat that most people associate with technology and it'll likely be Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
Giants of the industry, they have come to represent everything that Apple and Microsoft do.
As such, many presume technology is a world predominantly ruled by men, but it's actually the opposite.
A huge number of women are currently in positions of power shaping the future of the technology industry. Below are some of the biggest names in the business...
1. Marissa Mayer - CEO, Yahoo
Yahoo's CEO has been shaking up the technology industry ever since she took the job back in 2012.
Sometimes referred to as 'spender in chief', Mayer's approach to fixing Yahoo's woes has been to basically buy up the competition, while completely overhauling the company's own internal structure.
Perhaps most famous was her decision to spend $1.1 billion on blogging site Tumblr. Posting on her own Tumblr site, she promised "not to screw it up".
2. Meg Whitman - CEO, HP
Meg Whitman was recently cited by the New York Times as the woman most likely to become president of the United States.
She is, without doubt, one of the most significant figures in the technology industry. CEO of eBay when the company was still in its infancy, she saw the company go from $4 million in revenue to $8 billion over a ten-year period.
Whitman is now in charge of turning HP's fate around. Perhaps one of the biggest challenges in technology right now, Whitman continues to work hard re-inventing the HP brand.
3. Jocelyn Goldfein - director of engineering, Facebook
Whenever Facebook releases something new, you can be pretty sure that Jocelyn Goldfein has had something to do with it.
Goldfein is the director of engineering at Facebook, which means she is in charge of all the ultra-complex coding and computer related stuff that goes on behind the scenes.
She also works as a mentor attempting to aid women to more easily get into the engineering field of computing.
4. Sarah Wood - COO and co-founder, Unruly
Slightly alternative, but Sarah Wood has been the brains behind some of the most watched viral videos since YouTube began.
Her company Unruly has helped deliver and track vast numbers of video views across the web.
The likes of the 'T-Mobile Royal Wedding' were managed by Unruly. It's currently sat at 27.8 million views on YouTube.
5. Angela Ahrendts - SVP retail, Apple
Ex-Burberry brains Angela Ahrendts recently made the move across to Apple where she has ended up as senior vice president of the company's vast retail operations.
Angela manages both the online and street-level Apple setup. A press release from Apple announcing the move read:
"Ahrendts will have oversight of the strategic direction, expansion and operation of both Apple retail and online stores, which have redefined the shopping experience for hundreds of millions of customers around the world."
Quite a task then.
6. Cher Wang - CEO, HTC
A founding member of HTC back in 1997, Wang has led the company through thick and thin. Listed by Forbes in 2014 as the 54th most powerful woman in the world, her role in technology cannot be underestimated.
Wang is big on funding education within technology, working hard to give money to the likes of UCLA Berkeley and even donating $28.1 million to help fund Guizhou Forerunner College in China.
Obviously her role at HTC has also seen her putting design at the top of the list for everything the company does, which is definitely no bad thing.
7. Ginni Rometty - CEO, IBM
Current Chairman and CEO of IBM, Rometty is in charge of a hugely important organisation that has been around since the modern day technology market began.
Rometty has worked at IBM from the ground up, starting as a systems engineer back in 1981.
Perhaps most important was her foresight when it came to cloud computing, which IBM is now a market leader in.
8. Sheryl Sandberg - COO, Facebook
Facebook's chief operating officer is, rather predictably, right at the cutting edge of the internet. Previous employers included Google and the United States Treasury.
Sandberg has masterminded Facebook's profitability, in particular making sure that the social network remained the lead player when it came to mobile.
Right now a large part of Facebook's revenue comes from mobile devices. Prior to her hire in 2012, it made nothing.
9. Susan Wojcicki - CEO, YouTube
There aren't many jobs in technology that you could consider more important than being the CEO of YouTube.
Susan Wojcicki has been involved in the growth of Google's vast product family since the very start of the company. An infant Google was initially based in her garage way back in 1998.
Since then Susan has become one of the key driving forces behind YouTube's growth and was named "the most important person in advertising" by Forbes back in 2012.
10. Renee J James - President, Intel
Intel's president has been at the company for no less than 25 years, overseeing its rise to one of the largest processor and chipset manufacturers in the world.
As well as her role at Intel, James also sits as a non-executive on Vodafone's board of directors.
Add to that years of experience across every major hardware and software change in the tech industry and you have one very important woman indeed.
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