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Report: Silicon Valley Execs Are 89 Percent Male

It's still a man's world in Silicon Valley corner offices.

Marissa Mayer and Sheryl Sandberg are still in the minority.

The slim minority.

Women make up only 11 percent of executive positions at Silicon Valley companies, according to new research, meaning the Yahoo CEO and Facebook COO are some of the very few women in tech firms' corner offices.

Law firm Fenwick & West LLP found that tech firms are even less diverse than already-male-dominated S&P firms, where 16 percent of executives are women.

89 percent of Silicon Valley executives are men. Over 84 percent of the members of boards of directors are men.

And for CEO spots, it's even worse: only 9 percent of Silicon Valley firms have a woman at the helm, according to Business Insider.

"The numbers speak for themselves, and they're pretty dismal," the Web site reported.

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