"However many of these complaints and lawsuits are ultimately successful, by battling a national class-action suit to the Supreme Court, Walmart gets to avoid the potential for a single, headline-grabbing, national finding of gender discrimination. Instead, women who have been discriminated against by Walmart, facing even worse pay and prospects for promotion than the already miserable levels faced by men at the retail giant, will have to fight it out state by state, always outspent and outgunned. But some of those women, at least, have a chance for a partial form of justice."
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Walmart faces gender discrimination claims from nearly 2,000 women across the country
Walmart faces gender discrimination claims from nearly 2,000 women across the country
"However many of these complaints and lawsuits are ultimately successful, by battling a national class-action suit to the Supreme Court, Walmart gets to avoid the potential for a single, headline-grabbing, national finding of gender discrimination. Instead, women who have been discriminated against by Walmart, facing even worse pay and prospects for promotion than the already miserable levels faced by men at the retail giant, will have to fight it out state by state, always outspent and outgunned. But some of those women, at least, have a chance for a partial form of justice."
"However many of these complaints and lawsuits are ultimately successful, by battling a national class-action suit to the Supreme Court, Walmart gets to avoid the potential for a single, headline-grabbing, national finding of gender discrimination. Instead, women who have been discriminated against by Walmart, facing even worse pay and prospects for promotion than the already miserable levels faced by men at the retail giant, will have to fight it out state by state, always outspent and outgunned. But some of those women, at least, have a chance for a partial form of justice."
