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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...
...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...
Called boondocking or dry camping, the practice is not frowned upon by Wal-Mart. Most of the stores (many are open 24 hours) throw out the welcome mat and stock the shelves accordingly. "We treat them as shoppers who take a while to make up their minds," says Wal-Mart spokesman Tom Williams. Some localities are less welcoming, with laws that prohibit overnighting in parking lots. And campground operators point out that saving the average $24-a-night campground fee hardly makes up for the lack of electric, water or sewer services. But, says David Gorin, president of the National...