Salesforce Begins Paving A Long Road To Equal Pay

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff made it sound simple: let's give equal pay to crew for equal work. That promise earned him and his company a rash of coverage in late April, when he announced the company's plan to analyze the salaries of 16,000 employees to see how big Salesforce's gender pay gap was -- and start eliminating it. But in the months since then, the real work has only started to overcome, by the two women behind the idea: Cindy Robbins, Salesforce's head of personnel, and Leyla Seka, head of the company's Desk.com product. The World's Most Innovative Companies 2015 Robbins and Seka are longtime friends who were both identified as high-potential women at Salesforce around crossroads that Benioff was starting the Women's Surge, a program meant to increase women's influence in the workplace by raising up women leaders and making sure women made up 30% of participants at company meetings.

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