What Is Wal-Mart's Discrimination?

The one of biggest retail in the world store is Wal-Mart which is founded by Sam Walton in 1962 and incorporated on October 31, 1969. Wal-Mart is American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. According to Fortune Global 500 list in 2014, Wal-Mart is the world’s largest company by revenue and biggest private employer in the world with 2.2 million employees. As of March 31, 2016, Wal-Mart has 11,527 stores and clubs in 28 countries. Wal-Mart remains a family-owned business, as the company is controlled by the Walton Family, who own over 50 percent of Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart Store is the one of largest public corporation around the world, they also face the company problem which is the class action lawsuit claiming the company discriminated against female employees became the big issue in the Wal-Mart. Essentially, there are many main reasons why the discrimination on women happened. But they are two main reasons of discrimination that happened in the working environment, which women may have less education or less working experience than men. Therefore, women may not equally qualify compared to men qualifications to take the job. The other reason is that they may face discrimination which is because the ability and skill are difference from men and women. Furthermore, the physical energy can be the factor of discrimination of women. Therefore, the discrimination will lead to conflict in the corporation and also against the individual right.
The Wal-Mart case in the lawsuit, it is claimed that Wal-Mart pays women less than men even when the women have the same amount of experience, earnings differences between men and women at Wal-Mart grow wider over time, Wal-Mart does not offer equal training opportunities to its women employees and that Wal-Mart refuses to post all management openings, thus limiting women's opportunities to apply for management