Essay On Walmart Discrimination Against Women

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Walmart Discrimination against women Walmart is a multi-billion dollar retail industry that hires thousands of employees a year. Over the last decade Walmart, there has been some speculation that Walmart discriminates against women. They employ 815,000 women, which is 57 percent of its U.S. workforce (Reed). Over 2,000 women from each of 48 states have filed legal complaints against Walmart and the company is said to have a history of unfair treatment of these female employees by under paid and how there are so many lawsuits against them given few opportunities for advancement (Hines). I selected this topic because after doing some research I discovered some shocking information about how Walmart supposedly treats their female employees and how there are so many lawsuits filed against them. This relates to my field of study because it shows what goes on internally between a company and its employees and how a company’s decision affects their employees. This also relates to my field of study because it an example of what occurs sometimes within a company and that is legal action from employee to the employer. All of these lawsuits started after Betty Dukes, a 54 year old employee of a Walmart who has worked there for six years realized that she wasn’t getting the same opportunities as advancement as her male co-workers (Toobin). A statistic from an article from the New Yorker states that 72% of the workforces are women and a third of them are in management positions( Toobin). After 11 years in court the case was ruled in favor of Walmart because although there were over a million plantiffs it and was decided that they were not discriminated in the same way. Even though this she lossed the case Betty Dukes still continues her fi... ... middle of paper ... ...t women across the world. Even though their are clear cases with sufficient evidence against them, Walmart seems to argue the same thing every time which is that the women who present the case against them have not enough in common. I believe that the argument is invalid because from what I have researched, every woman who went against Walmart all came together for rights that they deemed unfair and unethical. One of their own managers told a female employee that men are supposed to get paid more, that’s just how it is. That statement alone justifies the argument against them. The battle for female workers equality is ongoing and I believe that women will continue to fight until they get what they want. In conclusion, women deserve the same opportunities as men and shouldn’t have to take it to the Supreme Court to get something that that every person should have.

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