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Wal-Mart discrimination case

A 9th U.S. Circuit of Appeals panel splits, but affirms, certification of a class action gender discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart.

Says Wal-Mart Watch:

" Wal-Mart has discriminated against its female managers and employees for years. It is shocking that a company which depends so deeply on women as customers treats its female employees so poorly. And now the 9th Circuit has once again reaffirmed that the case will move forward as a class action lawsuit.

Perhaps Wal-Mart's leadership will finally recognize it would benefit by making substantive changes to its business practices; the company needs to fix its employment practices and stop discriminating against its workers for starters."

Wal-Mart will appeal.

Posted by Max Brantley on December 11, 2007 06:34 PM | Permalink

Comments

Oops. WMW missed it.
"It is shocking that a company which depends so deeply on women as customers..."

WTH, Walmart depends so heavily upon women as workers. Do a head count sometime, any time.
.

Posted by: eLwood | December 11, 2007 07:03 PM

It's tough being number one in a capitalist economy.

Posted by: Cato | December 11, 2007 09:23 PM

I hate Walmart for exporting jobs and I don't shop there. Today's news is good for women "associates."

Posted by: BlueRidge | December 11, 2007 10:40 PM

I hate Walmart for exporting jobs and I don't shop there. Today's news is good for women "associates."

Posted by: BlueRidge | December 11, 2007 10:46 PM

While we are talking about Huck and Wal Mart, (put women in their place) discriminators this popped in my Email Box this morning. More than likely readers have already diced this but for those that haven't:

Wives should 'graciously submit' to husbands:

In June 1998, the Southern Baptist Convention issued a "statement on the family" that asserted, "A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ." Two months later, then-governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee was one of 131 signatories to a full-page ad in USA Today specifically endorsing the Convention's view on marriage:

You are right because you called wives to graciously submit to their husband's sacrificial leadership.

As Andrew Sullivan notes, "The group did not back away from the ad after a media firestorm. It seems to me that Huckabee should be asked if he still stands by that. And if he thinks it applies to Senator Clinton."

http://thinkprogress.org/

Posted by: BWC | December 12, 2007 06:58 AM

He can't back away from it, BWC, because 'they' still believe that sexist crap. It's so silly it's hard to get too riled about it...until I realize the power these Iowan 'Submitists' have in affecting who's going to be our next president. (My mother-in-law, a DEVOTE Southern Baptist, is always preaching this submission stuff ...while being one of the most non-submissive wives I know...just a little perspective.)

Posted by: zelda | December 12, 2007 09:18 AM

What does Walmart's "discrimination" against women have to do with whether or not they should submit to their husbands? One has nothing to do with the other.

Posted by: RebelJ | December 12, 2007 12:51 PM

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