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 At the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing on Thursday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said something very weird. He told an audience that was assembled to celebrate women’s achievements in tech (an industry that has diversity problems in nearly every metric) that women shouldn't ask for raises. 
  
 ReadWrite reports that during a fireside chat-type discussion with computer scientist and Harvey Mudd College President Maria Klawe, he commented, “It’s not really about asking for a raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will give you the right raise.” 
  
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 And he said that women who stay silent have an advantage. “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.” What would Grace Hopper think? 
  
 As the United States continues to struggle with the gender wage gap, and murmurs about improving diversity in tech finally grow into a broad discussion, it seems pretty clear that Nadella’s comments are crazy talk. Carnegie Mellon University economist Linda Babcock told All Things Considered in 2011 that a woman’s failure to ask for a raise early in her career could mean “leaving anywhere between $1 million and $1.5 million on the table in lost earnings over their lifetime." 
  
 But public figures are human, right? Maybe Nadella just sort of lost context for a minute. Oh, and he apologized! See, everything is gonna be fine. 
  
 Was inarticulate re how women should ask for raise. Our industry must close gender pay gap so a raise is not needed because of a bias #GHC14 — Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) October 9, 2014 
  
 So at least he knows he screwed up. And, yes, one important goal is for women to be paid the same as men so they don’t have to ask for raises just to bridge that gap. But even in that utopia, it will still be in everyone’s interests, both men and women, to advocate for themselves and request increased compensation at various strategic points in their careers. ||||| Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gestures during the keynote address of the Build Conference in San Francisco in April. (Photo: Eric Risberg, AP) 
  
 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sought Thursday to walk back comments he made at a women's computer science conference, when he suggested women don't need to ask for a raise — they should just trust the system. 
  
 "Was inarticulate re how women should ask for a raise," said Nadella on his Twitter account, using the hashtag #GHC14, for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Phoenix. "Our industry must close gender pay gap so a raise is not needed because of bias." 
  
 Was inarticulate re how women should ask for raise. Our industry must close gender pay gap so a raise is not needed because of a bias #GHC14 — Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) October 9, 2014 
  
 In a statement to Microsoft employees Thursday night, Nadella went further, saying he was "completely wrong." 
  
 Earlier at that conference, Nadella was asked to give his advice for women wanting to ask for a raise. He said it's not about asking for raises, and that women should trust in the system to reward them as they go along. Not asking for a raise is "good karma," because someone will know that that's the kind of person he or she will want to trust, he said. 
  
 The quote in this embedded video comes around 1:34. 
  
 This answer struck many in the audience, and on Twitter, as less-than-helpful advice, given recent studies on how women's salaries lag men's. The tech industry has also come under fire for hiring patterns that result in a workforce that's largely made up of white and Asian men. 
  
 At Microsoft, 17% of its global tech employees are female, according to a recent diversity report. Women also make up about 17% of Microsoft's leadership. 
  
 Maria Klawe, a Microsoft director who was interviewing Nadella, told him she disagreed with him on the raise issue, a response met with cheers and claps in the crowd. Then she gave some very practical advice to women: do your homework and role-play negotiating compensation. 
  
 In his statement to employees, Nadella said: "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." 
  
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 Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/1xvnOeu ||||| Proffering career advice more analogous to The Secret than Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In: Women Work, and the Will to Lead, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told women in the tech industry that asking for what you're worth isn't the best way to get ahead. 
  
 “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 a confounded (and predominantly female) audience at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing on Thursday. [Update: Nadella clarified his remarks on Twitter, and then issued a statement apologizing. He'll also return to speak at the Hopper conference again next year. See below.] 
  
 Ascribing to mortals the fictional abilities of comic book heroes, Nadella advised that women embrace their innate "super powers" and confidence, and trust a system that pays women 78% as much as men. 
  
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 Nadella made the comments in an on-stage conversation with Maria Klawe, a computer scientist, president of Harvey Mudd College, and member of Microsoft's board of directors. He seemed to suggest that "faith in the system" is akin to magic. 
  
 "That might be one of the initial 'super powers,' that quite frankly, women (who) don’t ask for a raise have," he told the straight-faced Klawe. "It’s good karma. It will come back.” 
  
 Audience murmurs suggested confusion and displeasure with career advice that both goes against everything women are told in the "Lean In" era, and seems woefully out of touch. The gap in income inequality between men and women in Silicon Valley, where technology is a leading industry, is severely imbalanced, according to a 2014 study by Joint Venture Silicon Valley. The overall gender pay disparity in Silicon Valley is actually worse than the overall United States: 
  
 Men who hold graduate or professional degrees earn a whopping 73 percent more than women with the same educational qualifications, while men with a bachelor’s degree earn 40 percent more than women with the same credentials. 
  
 Understandably, women in the audience at Arizona's Grace Hopper Celebration were perplexed by Nadella's advice. 
  
 Those “super powers” Nadella talked about were tied into an earlier point in the interview, when he encouraged women to be confident and use their unique talents to be successful in the workplace. Similar advice was doled out Wedneday night during the “male allies,” train wreck panel, which also received lukewarm-to-chilly response. 
  
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 Considering Nadella's thoughtful answers to other issues faced by women in tech, including his reassurance that Microsoft is working towards equality in the workplace, the CEO's advice for women working on career advancement came as a surprise. 
  
 Microsoft released its workplace diversity data last week, and the numbers show the company Nadella took over in February is just as white and male as other tech companies. Twenty-nine percent of the general Microsoft workforce is female, and in the U.S., almost 61% is white. The tech industry has a gender diversity issue, he said, and the real question is what companies are going to do about it. 
  
 “I don’t want to fall for the ... 'supply side' excuse,” he said to cheers from the audience, though he did acknowledge the pipeline of women interested in science and technology is not as big as the pool of men. “The real issue is to figure out how to get women into the organization, and especially, in our case, into our development.” 
  
 Nadella also described his own experience with work-life balance, an issue that regularly comes up for women, and sometimes men, who want to become leaders in their companies, but also must balance responsibilities of family life. 
  
 Instead of a balance, Nadella suggested that it's more work-life harmony, and that it’s possible to take charge of your career while still managing family responsibilities. 
  
 But his responses went downhill after that, and as soon as he suggested women shouldn’t ask for raises, moderator Klawe jumped in to reassure women that they should be empowered to ask for more money or career advancement. 
  
 “First of all, do your homework ... know what the appropriate salary is.” Klawe advised. “Then role play, sit down with someone you really trust, and practice asking them for a raise.” 
  
 At least someone on stage at Thursday morning's keynote could speak honestly about the issues. Because, as we all know, karma doesn't pay the bills. 
  
 Update, 2:30pm PT: Satya Nadella later tweeted an attempted clarification of his remarks: 
  
 Update, 7:00pm PT: Nadella, apparently realizing that it would take more than 140 characters to address the situation, has issued a statement to employees—and an apology for his ill-conceived remarks. 
  
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With pay inequality rife in the tech industry, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella should probably have known better than to say it is "good karma" for women to not ask for pay raises—especially since he was at a women's computer science conference. Attendees at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing murmured in "confusion and displeasure" yesterday after Nadella said it's "not really about asking for a raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will give you the right raise," according to readwrite.com. Nadella later apologized for the comments, saying he had been "inarticulate" and the "industry must close [the] gender pay gap so a raise is not needed because of bias," reports USA Today. Nadella's comments weren't just ill-judged—Carnegie Mellon economist Linda Babcock estimates that women who fail to seek pay raises early in their careers can lose more than $1 million in earning over their lifetimes, according to Slate—they show that the India-born CEO has a poor understanding of the concept of karma, writes Annalisa Merelli at Quartz. He's implying that asking for a raise is a bad action and people who don't do it will be rewarded by life, she writes, but the truth is that many people deserve a raise anyway, and if Nadella wants good karma himself, he "should walk in his office tomorrow and give a raise to all the women who work for him, without waiting for them to ask for it."