Wal-Mart sued for gender discrimination, wants case to be moved to Arkansas

Wal-Mart sued for gender discrimination:
Wants to move court case to its home ground

Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, has been sued in California for gender discrimination. The class action lawsuit may finally come to involve 500,000 women workers.

Workers - present and former - from California , Texas , Ohio , Illinois , and Florida contend that women have not been given equal job assignments and that their career opportunities have not been the same as for men. There has also been inequality in training and compensation, they say.

Wal-Mart, which has a large number of court cases running against itself, wants to move this case away from California. The company would like the case to be tried at its home turf in Arkansas instead, which is hardly surprising.