While this industry is often blamed for the differences in pay between men and women and a lack of diversity, both within companies and at the level of their leaders, the remarks of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, appeared particularly moved.
Invited to a conference in Arizona on women and computers, it has been questioned by a woman who asked her advice for those want to advance their careers but are uncomfortable to demand a wage increase.
Nadella, in office since April, said that women should trust the “system that makes you give in as good increases (pay). ” He then found that women who do not ask for wage increase have a “super-power” as a “good karma that will come back.”
The moderator of the debate, Maria Klawe , member of the management of Microsoft, pointedly disagreed with Nadella, causing the audience’s applause.
“I have very bad answered that question”
The awkward about Satya Nadella led to apologize publicly, “I responded poorly to this issue,” and said the boss of the American computer giant in a memo to employees posted on its Twitter account Thursday night.
“Men and women should receive equal pay for equal work. [...] If you think you deserve a raise, you should ask, “Has he added.
” I misspoke in my answer on how women should seek salary increase, “Nadella has written about hersatyanadella. “Our industry must end wage inequalities, that way we will not need to ask for an increase,” said he said.
The case comes as according to a recent study by a group of Californian thinking, highly educated men working in Silicon Valley earn on average 73% more than women in equivalent qualification.
Geek culture
Microsoft reported earlier this year that its numbers were made up only 29% of women. An almost identical figure at Google (30%) and Facebook (31%).
In addition, only 18% of women get degrees in computer science today, down by half in 25 years (37 % in 1990).
“The technology sector is not a traditional outlet for women,” agrees Ariane Hegewisch, director of studies at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, which studies the issue of women in the labor market.
“There is not much evidence that karma has been very generous to women in this area,” she added in reference to what Satya Nadella.
Even if some of them in positions of responsibility, such as Marissa Mayer, Yahoo !, boss Meg Whitman, Executive Director at Hewlett-Packard, Safra Catz or co-president Oracle, the technology sector has become more difficult to access for women in the 1980s, yet judge Hegewisch.
“The geek culture has become stronger and culture” on-travaille- all-the-night “is also stronger, so this may alienate women,” she says, lamenting that women are under-represented in all sectors of the technology industry, unlike other areas such as finance, for example.
“We are very far from”
“Women can study mathematics or science but rather they lead to traditional business, because the conditions of work and culture in the technology sector are not very friendly, “said Ariane Hegewisch yet.
What is worrying with the gaffe Nadella added-t it was that he was speaking at a conference on the role of women in the IT industry: “This shows that it is not too aware of the debate, and it shows that we share very far, “she said.
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