Microsoft's
CEO Satya Nadella has recently announced in a memo plans for a new
company-wide diversity effort which is said to “defuse
growing furor over his comments that women should not ask for a raise
but trust that "karma" will reward them.”
Nadella again apologized to employees
for the remarks he made at a women's technology conference, saying in
a companywide memo this week that it was a "humbling and
learning experience,” the USA
Today reported.
The tech industry is wanting in women
and minorities holding diversity information technology jobs. Microsoft, like many other
companies in the IT, consumer electronics and social networking
spaces has
been found to be sorely lacking when it comes to employee
diversity with significant gender and ethnic diversity gaps in key
areas such as engineering and leadership positions.
Microsoft's female employees in the
United States earn 99.7 percent of what men earned in similar
positions last year, Nadella said in a new memo to workers this week.
He suggested that such slight variations are not unusual for "any
particular group," but he added that he wants to increase the
numbers of women and minorities in the company's workforce. In
addition to mandatory training on "diversity and inclusion,"
Nadella also vowed
to step up efforts to "recruit more diverse talent to
Microsoft at all levels of the company."
The data regarding employee pay in the
United States is encouraging, but hardly complete. Microsoft is a
multinational outfit, with employees spread around the globe. It
would be good of Microsoft to release more detailed statistics on a
per-country basis. That data would help women around the world better
understand the labor dynamics in their countries. And it would help
the technology industry better understand where pay gaps based on
gender are wider — that could help people ask for the raises that
they deserve, according
to Tech Crunch.
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