Some female Nokia Oyj employees will get a raise this summer, part of the company’s effort to close its gender pay gap. The Finnish network-equipment vendor will allocate a special budget to eliminate salary differences between men and women who do the same jobs. A recent pay audit by Mercer found a pay gap at Nokia that could only be explained by the gender of the employee. Most of the underpaid workers are women, but a few men will get raises, too. “It showed a small but statistically significant unexplained pay gap between men and women,” Chief Executive Officer Rajeev Suri said. “We’re doing this because it doesn’t fit with our values to have a pay gap like this.” Nokia, which has more than 100,000 employees worldwide, joins a growing number of companies and governments focused on the discrepancies in wages paid to men and women doing the same jobs. The U.K. now requires all companies with more than 250 employees to disclose their gender … [Read more...] about Nokia women and some men will get a pay hike to close gender gap