"Leading by example to close the gender pay gap," 15 April 2018

Today women still make 20% less on average than their male counterparts... A tech company called Salesforce is the perfect example of just how tough it can be to close the remaining pay gap... That helps explain why founder and CEO Marc Benioff was so cocky when the woman who runs his human resources department came to talk to him in 2015 about equal pay... Benioff had already made promoting and retaining women a priority at Salesforce. But personnel chief Cindy Robbins says he'd never ordered an audit to make sure men and women were being paid equally... So they did the audit, and Benioff found that Salesforce did have a persistent pay gap between women and men doing the same job... "It was through the whole company, every division, every department, every geography."... 

[According to personnel chief Cindy Robbins]... "It cost about $3 million for us to do those adjustments the first year... More than 10% of the women at Salesforce got bigger paychecks."... [Benioff stated], "I believe as a CEO that I can show other CEOs how to create a great culture in their company. You can't be a great CEO and say that I'm not committed to gender equality today. I-- I don't think it's possible... CEOs with one button on one computer can pay every man and every woman equally. We have the data. We know what everyone makes. There's no excuse."