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While Benioff said he didn't know what the current pay divide was at the company, "When I'm done there will be no gap," he told the Web site.

Research has also shown that it's likely quite effective at improving the overall ranks of women at the company, too - perhaps even more so than traditional benefits designed to attract and retain women.

Benioff's pay initiative is reportedly part of a program called Women's Surge, designed to help improve the ranks of women at the company, where 85 percent of leaders and 71 percent of the overall workforce are men, according to Salesforce data.

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