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Wal-Mart sued for
discriminating women in promotions and wages
U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart will have to answer to accusations that it favours men over women when deciding on promotions and pay. An article published in the Salt Lake Tribune and other newspapers refers to a lawsuit filed in 2001 in San Francisco, which says that statistics show that women are being discriminated against. This is confirmed by another study released recently, which says that full time women hourly employees, who have worked at least 45 weeks for the company, earned 6.2 per cent or 1,150 USD less than men in comparable functions. The San Francisco lawsuit could still be extended to cover all 700,000 women who worked for Wal-Mart between 1996 and 2001. This would be the largest class action lawsuit ever in the United States, dealing with working life discrimination. .
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