Wal-Mart Biased Against Men

Kaitlyn DeShon

Article #1

North County Times

"Calif. women allege Wal-Mart bias in new lawsuit"

http://www.nctimes.com/news/national/article_187e152d-cbb5-5c69-8e3c-099b9b86ecac.html

Wal-Mart Favoring Women Employees

In Wal-Marts across the country, there have been numerous complaints about women employees being favored much more than their male counterparts. They say that women are given lesser rates and are promoted more. After an attempt at a lawsuit at the federal court level, the court tossed it out, spurring the complainers on to the Supreme Court, who are still reviewing the case, however, the complaints and evidence was much too varied, with too many different situations, so the case was split into an "armada" of many smaller cases. All the cases needed approval from a federal court judge before they could be seen by the Supreme Court. It is still being reviewed, and there are many differing opinions on the subject.

This connects to what we are studying in class because some of the suggestions we had for our rights or rules had to be specified, just like the many varying components of the case needed to be split into many separate cases. Also, we have been studying Supreme Court cases that had to go to the Supreme Court after being undecided by the lower courts.

This connects to my life as a citizen because I have sometimes thought that maybe men were favored more than women when it came to certain aspects of life, such as construction work or playing football. This affects my everyday life because it could determine where my life goes in the future as far as careers.

I believe that women were not, in fact, being favored more than men, they were just being acknowledged more than they usually were. I believe this because it says that women's percentage of employment at Wal-Marts sprung from 38.8 percent to 41.2 percent in the past five years. However, that isn't even half, so more men are still employed at Wal-Marts than women and if this trend continues and more than half of Wal-Mart employees are women, so be it. I believe that apparently less than 40 percent is the standard employment of women in Wal-Marts compared to men, and that if that percentage were to go higher, it should not offend men that women might slightly overpower their numbers one day.