Business leaders often avoid talking about inequality and inequality of any kind; after all, it’s their job to keep the company out of trouble, so why bring up a problem you’re not prepared to solve? Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff didn’t follow that playbook when he spoke to the Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi at Dreamforce last week, when he spoke very directly about Salesforce’s efforts toward pay parity. “We are committed to equality in our company; it is a core value. Men and women will be paid equally for the same work,” he said. Without hesitation, he even added a candid takeaway: “It wasn’t very hard to do.”
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