Why Men should earn more than Women according to Wal-mart

[Ichingcarpenter]

Detrix Young, a Wal-Mart employee in Aiken, South Carolina, reports that she sat in a store-wide meeting where one of her female co-workers asked why the men in the store earned more than the women. One of the male managers answered that "men are working as the heads of their households, while women are just working for the sake of working." Another male manager laughed, even though several of the women were single mothers trying to make ends meet on a Wal-Mart paycheck.

Young is one of more than a hundred current and former Wal-Mart employees who submitted declarations to a federal court in support of their joint claim that Wal-Mart ― the nation's largest private employer ― discriminated against women in stores around the country, paying them less than male workers and promoting them less frequently. Later this month, the Supreme Court will hear the case to decide whether the women may bring their claims as a class action, or must bring their cases one at a time. The ACLU, along with the National Women's Law Center and joined by 32 other civil rights organizations, filed a friend-of-the-court brief today supporting the women.

In order to go forward as a class action, the women have to show that the discrimination they experienced has common elements ― that the sexist comments and pay inequity reported by Detrix Young in Aiken, South Carolina had enough in common with women's experiences in Wal-Mart stores around the country to justify hearing the cases together as one.

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http://www.aclu.org/blog/womens-rights/women-do-you-work-just-sake-working?v=3

[Hannah Bell]

1. kr

[RainDog]

2. OFFS

hope these women will then make enough money to support their families...

[xxqqqzme]

3. God luck my sisters.

[johnnie]

4. I went to Walmart...

...once...about 20 something years ago when it first opened here.

[Canuckistanian]

28. I went about 7 years ago

They didn't even have what I was looking for. Didn't buy ANYTHING.

[Sherman A1]

5. K&R

:kick:

[CommonSensePLZ]

6. -facepalm- at the failure to understand equal opportunity philosophy

This is what I hate, people making assumptions about why someone is working. Not all of the men working for their company are heads of households, and in some cases it is the women who are. They should probably extend their lawsuit to younger workers who are probably making less because these guys just think they're saving up for a bike or to buy a video game and probably assume all the older ones have kids.

But most importantly it is NONE of their business what any competent, capable worker's situation is. If a worker can do the work and is trustworthy why shouldn't they make what they deserve?

[Kolesar]

7. South Carolina...eom

[Skidmore]

8. As a young femaleI learned that you never can count on

any man to take care of you or your children. I learned that from my father and my first husband. I have been de facto head of my own household, financially supporting us all long before the divorce and long after it. When I needed to make purchases, I did not get a break on pricing because of my gender and perceived secondary status. At the very least, I should expect to have equality of income for my labors.

[Darth_Kitten]

11. I learned that very, very early as well.

:(

[Lyric]

25. Same here. Oh yes.

I'm with a female partner thankfully, but believe me, I know what you mean. There are some responsible men out there, but none of them appear to be single--or if they ARE single, they're all looking for women 20 years younger than they are. :(

[seabeyond]

9. i was told exactly that way back, when i got promoted to a management position

i was so young i accepted his explanation. and quit.

[snooper2]

13. I was told "you are making good money for your age"

23 years old working at Worldcom

Moved up from the working in the repair group to Network Engineering. One of the reasons the lady who was running that particular group wanted me is because I was one of the very few who would work International troubles.

Besides the point, we are sitting in her office and I knew what others in that group made. Brought up why only 2% raise...

Her exact words "You are making pretty damn good money for your age."

[Lorien]

20. I've heard "You're doing really well for a woman." while making $35.00 an hour

compared to the standard $25.00 an hour women were offered for THE EXACT SAME JOB that paid new male hires $45.00 an hour!

[Maine-ah]

10. lmao...(in a sarcastic way)

Just before I was fired, large chain restaurant...I had a meeting with my district manager. One of the things I brought up was a young man, who was put into the same management position as myself (with way less experience than me) was being paid more even though he never was actually managing...they basically gave him the title and pay. I was told..."he's a single father and pays alimony"

well, he wasn't even divorced yet, so he wasn't paying alimony. His MIL was his direct manager. After reading this, I would think that I personally have a case against my former employer.

[Recursion]

12. OFFS. Liquidate the damn company.

What utter bullshit.

[raccoon]

14. Whar century are these idiots living in? nt

[madinmaryland]

15. Sheesh. Wal-mart is trying to take us back to the 19th Century.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

16. women pay child support too...this is 2011

[Hell Hath No Fury]

17. My single Mom who raised three kids --

on her own back in the day heard this one on many occassions. :mad: She also did not get jobs because teh male applicants "needed it more" being head of household. What horseshit -- and that that thinking is going on still today is obscene.

[Lorien]

19. Mine who raised two kids heard the same. Her boss would dump his work on her

at 4pm and head home, while she worked until 10pm and I took care of my sister at home. Meanwhile, the men in her office made more. One fortune 500 corporation that I worked for told me that I was making 40% less than my male co-workers because "guys need stuff, and you can just get married."Really? So my dad who ran off with another woman and partied around the globe just "needed stuff" while my mom, who bought our clothes at the Salvation army and struggled to keep the heat at 60 degrees in the Winter did not?? And with more than half the women in America being single, 2-3% of women being lesbian and 12-13% of men being gay, how strong was the chance that I'd ever get married? And what if I had been a lesbian?

I truly hate these spoiled, bratty, entitled misogynist fuckers. :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Hell Hath No Fury]

22. You and me both.

:applause:

[Tsiyu]

18. Oh this has been the way we women have been treated for years

It is such an injustice, for males to imagine they must keep us down, for them to claim we don't need to make as much since we are "not heading households." Bigoted, misogynistic WalMart just continues to carry that discriminatory torch even in 2011

It makes me so angry to confront this blatant double standard...when our bills are just as high as men's bills, when our kids cost as much to feed as their kids.

It's a Good Old Boys Club out there, and it's disgusting.

I hope these women kick ass.

[felix_numinous]

21. I hope they unionize!

http://www.ufcw.org/makingchange/

[femrap]

23. The Walton family

has more $$$$ than the entire bottom 1/3rd of our nation.....that's 100 million people.

fuck the greedy family...may they have to eat their damn money.

I could spit nails. Are women ever going to be treated like HUMAN BEINGS????????????????

[thereismore]

24. Women make less because they have less muscle and therefore work less than men.

And if you believe that then I have a bridge to sell you.

[leftstreet]

26. K&R omg

:banghead:

[ehrnst]

27. So do men with 4 kids make more than men with 2 kids? (nt)

[JeffersonChick]

29. I am speechless. k&r

[Amonester]

30. What country is this? WTF?

the in-$ultanate of oh-man?