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Earlier this week six female employees of the nation's largest private employer, retail chain Wal-Mart, filed a federal lawsuit accusing the store of sex discrimination. Although over seventy percent of Wal-Mart's hourly employee's are female, they account for only a third of all management. The women allege the retail chain engaged in unfair practices in the training, payment and promotion of its female employees. TIME contributor Barbara Ehrenreich worked at a Wal-Mart in Minnesota doing research for her latest book, "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America" which looks at the lives...
...TIME.com: During your time working at Wal-Mart did you observe men and women being treated differently...
...Truthfully I was actually impressed by Wal-Mart's corporate stance on discrimination. They seemed to take it very seriously. We had a lengthy computer training and were told very clearly not to discriminate against our fellow employees, based on race, gender, ethnicity, etc. One of the vignettes they used was one on gender bias. They showed a man telling a woman she "couldn't" do some type of job related act (such as lifting) because she was a woman. They made it very clear this type of behavior wouldn't be tolerated. So the case is interesting because...
...LAREDO WAL-MART Most of the 500 cars in the Wal-Mart parking lot have Mexican plates--about normal for a Friday night. Laredo boasts the highest-grossing Wal-Mart per square foot in the U.S., because this town of 200,000 is really a market for more than 1 million people. Right up the highway from the big downtown bridge, the store is often a first stop for visiting Mexicans. Inside, you can find Fabuloso detergent, table runners decorated with images of the Virgin of Guadalupe, and CDs featuring popular Norteno and Tejano stars. The biggest selling items...
...Microsoft's William H. Gates III or Intel's Andrew S. Grove, not Walt Disney's Michael D. Eisner or Berkshire Hathaway's Warren E. Buffett, not even the late Coca-Cola chieftain Roberto C. Goizueta or the late Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton has created more shareholder value than Jack Welch," business writer John A. Byrne wrote...