During a talk on Thursday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told a
predominantly female audience that women should simply have “faith in
the system” and not directly ask for raises. “It’s not really about
asking for a raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will
give you the right raise,” Nadella told the Grace Hopper Celebration of
Women in Computing. Faith in the system, according to Nadella, is a kind
of superpower. “That might be one of the initial ‘super powers,’ that
quite frankly, women [who] don’t ask for a raise have,” Nadella said
while speaking to Maria Klawe, a member of Microsoft’s Board of
Directors, president of Harvey Mudd College, and a computer scientist.
“It’s good karma. It will come back.”
In a tweet posted
later on Thursday, Nadella admitted he had been "inarticulate" about
how women should ask for raises. "Our industry must close gender pay gap
so a raise is not needed because of a bias," he wrote. Only 29 percent
of the general Microsoft workforce is female, according to workplace
diversity data the company released last week.
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