Satya Nadella

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella speaks at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Telling women not to ask for raises wasn’t a gaffe — it was a long-established tradition

Business

How should a woman ask for a raise? She shouldn’t, said Microsoft’s CEO at recent women’s tech conference. But if that sounds shocking, it wasn’t for many Indian women who have been told throughout their lives to keep quiet while the men are encouraged to get ahead.