Bangalore: Recently Virginia Rometty was named as IBM’s first ever female CEO and with Facebook going IPO this week Sheryl Sandburb COO is on her to become one of the richest and powerful lady in technology.

Regardless of these noteworthy accomplishments by these female leaders who have set a benchmark in the technology world, it is quite unfortunate that the number of women chief information officers (CIOs) at U.S. corporations has declined for the second year in a row reports Mashable.  This year percentage of women CIOs in U.S fell to 9 percent from previous year’s 11 percent; in 2010 the figure was 12 percent.

The 2012 CIO Survey from Harvey Nash the recruitment and outsourcing specialist revealed that women in IT are “highly unrepresentative of the population at large”. The global CIO survey included ninety three percent male respondents.

The survey highlighted that not only are there too few female CIOs, the overall count of women in IT is also extremely low. Furthermore, 24 per cent of CIOs responding claimed that they have no women in their technical teams. Yet 51 per cent believe women can improve relationships between the business and IT.

“For every woman Harvey Nash recruits into a CIO role there are nine men placed in a similar position,” the company states in its report.