In the article from The Washington Post by Ylan Q. Mui a federal appeals court gave a thousands of woman the right to sue Wal-Mart based on gender discrimination. The discriminated women have been waiting for 12 years to have the opportunity to fight for their rights, since their salary were lower than men's and their promotions didn't have a place as often as the opposite gender. However Wal-Mart disagree and is planning to request Supreme Court to go over those rules.
The appeal court have not decided yet if the discrimination had a place but if female employees can sue Wal-Mart all together. The number of woman in the struggling case went up from about 3400 in 1998 to almost 1,6 million as of today (excluding the women workers, who left Wal-Mart before the suit was filed in 2001 there is still more than a million of them).
We have discussed in class all of those issues mentioned in this article, that females working in Wal-Mart are dealing with on daily bases. Its been said that Wal-Mart has made "significant strides to support female employees", obviously not if the number of women affected by gender discrimination on a job is raising.
Yes - what's remarkable about the article is how hard it is to use the courts - this lawsuit has been going on for years and this is only one step in the process. It raises the question of whether other means might be more effective in addressing discrimination.
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