Nadella quickly reeled back and clarified his comments after they exploded on social media saying he had been inarticulate and wrong. But the remarks reverberated in the tech world where the role of women and their being short-changed in a male-dominated ecosystem is receiving increasing recognition.
Ironically, the faux pas occurred at the tail end of a conference celebrating women in computing when Nadella was being interviewed by educationist Maria Klawe, who is also a Microsoft board member. Klawe asked him what advice he would offer women who are not comfortable asking for pay 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 replied, inelegantly adding, ''That might be one of the initial 'super powers,' that quite frankly, women who don't ask for a raise have.''''It's good karma. It will come back,'' he advised.
What came back at Nadella was a volley of criticism. Klawe herself disagreed with Nadella, and went on to relate a story about when she was hired as Dean of Engineering at Princeton, and found she was making $50,000 a year less than she should have been ''Do your homework,'' she advised women in the audience. ''Don't be stupid like I was.''
Twitter erupted over his statement, with users giving reactions like:
As Nadella's boo-boo spread across social media, he backpedalled quickly, tweeting:
He later elaborated in a memo to his Microsoft colleagues. ''Toward the end of the interview, Maria asked me what advice I would offer women who are not comfortable asking for pay raises. I answered that question completely wrong. Without a doubt I wholeheartedly support programmes at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap. I believe men and women should get equal pay for equal work. And when it comes to career advice on getting a raise when you think it's deserved, Maria's advice was the right advice. If you think you deserve a raise, you should just ask,'' he said.
It's unclear why Nadella chose the ''don't ask... accept your karma'' line of thought in the first place considering the enthusiasm with which he joined the women's conference. In a memo to his colleagues the day before the conference informing them he will be joining hundreds of other Microsoft employees and more than 8,000 female engineers from around the world, Nadella said he'll be going to the conference ''to learn and to listen.''
''I'm also going with the hope of inspiring talented female engineers to continue pursuing careers in technology while also making valuable connections with potential candidates for Microsoft,'' he had told them.
Evidently, he may not have factored in his own internal thought process.
Nadella joins several prominent public figures — singer Yesudas being the latest — who have shown deep-rooted male bias against women.
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