'Karma' Hasn't Fixed These Three Facts About The Gender Pay Gap

'Karma' Hasn't Fixed These Three Facts About The Gender Pay Gap Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told a room full of women that instead of asking for a raise, they should trust in the system and "karma" to resolve the current gender wage gap. "That might be one of the initial 'super powers,' that quite frankly, women who don’t ask for a raise have," he said to Maria Klawe, Microsoft board member at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. "It’s good karma. It will come back." At a time where it's become fashionable to talk openly about the lack of women in STEM jobs - see Google's recent take on "the missing men in the conversation about women in tech" here - Nadella's comments seem completely out-of-date and misinformed.