Wal-Mart to Pay $11.7 Million to Settle U.S. Gender Bias Lawsuit

March 3, 2010

  • March 3, 2010 at 9:28 am
    youngin' says:
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    The decree makes Walmart’s hiring practices more fair by making them more unfair. The qualified men who are denied jobs due to this decree should sue Walmart for gender bias.

  • March 3, 2010 at 9:44 am
    wudchuck says:
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    next thing you will see is someone that is other than white suing and getting even more money… but here’s my problem, how can we validate these numbers today, tommorrow and even tommorrow’s tommorrow? i can see that we have to treat each other the same, but to mandate numbers, is like mandating the nfl to where they have to interview 1 black person for a head coaching job. (funny, that no female, has been hired for this job yet!) this lawsuit is going to blow open a door for more! it’s going to be rolling stone that will keep on rolling for a long time.

  • March 3, 2010 at 1:15 am
    John Wall says:
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    These were jobs that required “filling orders”, not “giving orders”. I believe that gender matters in determining suitability for these two distinct activities. Just ask my wife.

  • March 3, 2010 at 1:51 am
    Rosie says:
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    Articles like this just twist my panties into a knot. Why is it so hard to treat women fairly? If I was hungry, and Wal-Mart was the only place to buy some food in my town, I would eat dirt first. Phoey on Sam Walton

  • March 3, 2010 at 1:57 am
    Rosie says:
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    what a sexist attitude. I hope your wife makes you sleep in the guest room tonight, though if you were my husband it would be the dog house. :p

  • March 3, 2010 at 1:57 am
    Rosie says:
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    what a sexist attitude. I hope your wife makes you sleep in the guest room tonight, though if you were my husband it would be the dog house. :p

  • March 3, 2010 at 2:00 am
    Rosie says:
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    If WalMart had not been so blatantly and illegally discriminatory for all these years, there would be no need to sign the consent decree. You make it sound like we should just forget that white men have been favored in hiring for years. What, we should just forget about all the women who have been discriminated against by the evil empire WalMart? What’s fair about that?

  • March 3, 2010 at 2:01 am
    Wildcat says:
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    Funny thing is, from the warehouses I’ve been in, women often do a better job selecting than men, especially when picking from the smaller slots and in items that ship less than a case. The only advantage the men have is when picking heavy items. However, a 40 lb sack of produce doesn’t care which gender is moving it as long as it moves.

  • March 3, 2010 at 2:12 am
    WK says:
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    Maybe not forget about it but don’t dwell on it. What’s done is done. Move forward. Learn from the past but you won’t get anywhere if you are stuck in the past. To move forward you have to work for the better future. This lawsuit isn’t changing anything except what sex Walmart hires to fill vacant warehouse spots. It won’t change their practices they will just learn to hide it better. I agree about shopping at Walmart, no way.

  • March 3, 2010 at 2:23 am
    esquire says:
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    in that case, get back in the kitchen and make a dirt sammich woman! what are you doing with your shoes on anyway?



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