Dukes v. Wal-Mart. Largest Case In Supreme Court Against Women Discrimination.

    

     This story started ten years ago, when group of women who was working in Wal-Mart filed a lawsuit alleging that their employer have discrimination against women.  Top management of Wal-Mart has preference to pay less salary to women than man, man employees get promotion more quickly than women and only few women could get higher promotion. This case was the largest case in the US history which involving 1,5 million female employees of Wal-Mart.

    In 2000 Betty Dukes, a 54 years old women who was working in Wal-Mart in California, claimed sex discrimination. She was working on Wal-Mart for 6 years and she has positive perfomance reviews, but she was denied the training which could help her to get higher position.

    In June 2001, the lawsuit began in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The plaintiffs seek to represent 1.5 million women, including all those who work or have previously worked in a Wal-Mart store since December 1998. This case was continue almost 10 years and on June 20, 2011 Supreme Court ruled in Wal-Mart's favor, saying that the plaintiffs did not have enough in based to generate a class.

    Betty Dukes, a plaintiff and class representative, has continued to work at a Wal-Mart store in Pittsburg, Calif., throughout the proceedings. “I am disappointed that we were not able to proceed collectively,” she said. “The Supreme Court has ruled against all women of a poor background in this country. It will cost us quite a bit to fight one on one. We are determined to move forward and present our case in court.

    This case show up that Women Discrimination on workplace still has place to be and it occupied big amount of women who could not fight for their rights to get better job position.