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Article: Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart.(Book Review)
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Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart
Liza Featherstone Basic Books www.basicbooks.com 288 pp., $25
If you don't already dislike Wal-Mart, this book will give you dozens of reasons to. In Selling Women Short, journalist Liza Featherstone examines Wal-Mart's alleged misconduct toward its female employees and explores the system that has allowed it to persist.
The framework for Featherstone's examination is the nationwide gender-discrimination class action Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. The lawsuit, filed in 2001, alleges that Wal-Mart systematically discriminates, in both pay and promotional opportunities, ...