Microsoft CEO Suggests Women Not Ask for Raises, Trust in 'Karma'

Satya Nadella came under fire Thursday for comments at a conference celebrating women in computing, in which the new Microsoft CEO suggested that women who don't ask for raises have "good karma" and that not asking for equal pay with men is a "superpower."

"It's not really about asking for the raise," Nadella told the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference, held in Phoenix, "but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along."

He added that "women who don't ask for raises" have a "superpower ... because that's good karma, that'll come back ... that's the kind of person that I want to trust." Read more...