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Tell Wal-Mart to Stop Discriminating Against Women
Target: President & CEO Lee ScottSponsored by: Wal-Mart Watch
Wal-Mart currently faces the largest class-action sex discrimination lawsuit in American history.
Plaintiffs in the Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. case have provided evidence that women working in Wal-Mart stores are paid less than their male counterparts for comparable work in every region of the country and in most job categories. WhatÂ’s worse, data show that the pay gap between men and women gets worse over time, and that women get promoted to management roles at Wal-Mart at a much slower rate than men.
As the worldÂ’s largest corporation and AmericaÂ’s largest private sector employer, Wal-Mart clearly has some explaining to do.
But rather than address the serious issues raised in the sex discrimination lawsuit, the company has aggressively fought the charges, even refusing to implement recommendations of its own diversity task force back in 1998. Tellingly, Wal-Mart disbanded the task force in 1999; and the percentage of women in management positions declined at the company in the two years that followed.
ItÂ’s time to demand that CEO Lee Scott take concrete and measurable steps to end the systematic discrimination against women at Wal-Mart Stores.
Plaintiffs in the Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. case have provided evidence that women working in Wal-Mart stores are paid less than their male counterparts for comparable work in every region of the country and in most job categories. WhatÂ’s worse, data show that the pay gap between men and women gets worse over time, and that women get promoted to management roles at Wal-Mart at a much slower rate than men.
As the worldÂ’s largest corporation and AmericaÂ’s largest private sector employer, Wal-Mart clearly has some explaining to do.
But rather than address the serious issues raised in the sex discrimination lawsuit, the company has aggressively fought the charges, even refusing to implement recommendations of its own diversity task force back in 1998. Tellingly, Wal-Mart disbanded the task force in 1999; and the percentage of women in management positions declined at the company in the two years that followed.
ItÂ’s time to demand that CEO Lee Scott take concrete and measurable steps to end the systematic discrimination against women at Wal-Mart Stores.
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Do you not realize that alot of women love to shop? Which gender do you really think is always going into Walmart & buying? Most men I know don't shop!!!!
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wal-mart hates women.
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Boycott Walmart. Better yet SHUT THEM DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I believe I'll be doing more shopping at Target and the local grocery store instead of wasting any money at Wal-Mart or Sam's Club. Employees everywhere should be paid for their experience and work ethic, not for what gender they were born.
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