• First store is opened in Bentonville, Arkansas by Sam Walton in 1962• 2,100,000 employees worldwide.

Walmart has average 8,500 stores in 15 countries, under 55 different names.

Rank CompanyRevenues

($ millions)

Profits

($ millions)

1 Wal-Mart Stores 421,849 16,389

2 Royal Dutch Shell 378,152 20,127

3 Exxon Mobil 354,674 30,460

4 BP 308,928 -3,719

5 Sinopec Group 273,422 7,629

6 China National Petroleum 240,192 14,367

7 State Grid 226,294 4,556

8 Toyota Motor 221,760 4,766

9 Japan Post Holdings 203,958 4,891

10 Chevron 196,337 19,024

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2011/full_list/

BETTY DUKES Faced Gender Discrimination On Walmart.

Didn’t Get The Right Promotion , She Went To Complain About Her Problem to Her District Manager.

Then She Was Demoted Back To Cashier And Her Salary Was Decreased.

All Open Positions Were Filled By Men WithoutAnnouncement.

Decide To Go Court With 5 More Women Worker İn Walmart.

This Court Covered All Female Employees Of Walmart.

Despite Holding TWO-THİRD Of All Hourly Jobs ,

Walmart Didn’t Gave Promotion To Women Because Of Their Gender Discrimination That Time.

Payments of women Were Less Than that of Men.

Women Lagged Behind Men.

Betty Dukes and 5 other women employees of Walmart

All female employees of Walmart

Managers of Headquarters of Walmart

Store Manager of Dukes

NGOs which cares about women rights and feminism , supports equal life standard for everyone in every part of life.

It caused reaction of public against walmart.

(People were boycotting walmart.)

Bad image for Wal-Mart.

(If the decision is accepted by supreme court, there will be a huge amount of penalty.)

Until Walmart was found not guilty by SUPREME COURT, they tried to express themselves that they didn’t act unethical.

This could be done by tv, newspaper advwhich had high cost.

Also during court, there were some strikes not to buy products from Walmart.

All those things caused to Walmart in terms of its financial situation .

Because this case's base is a Walmart market in California, it can be understood that manager of stores can act how they want without caring about agreement between them and Walmart headquarter. So first action can be adding more rules to prevent unethical, biased actions of managers, employees.Other action can be a evaluation of managers actions in terms of motivation, efficiency, behaviour with workers. With this way, it can be provided that managers can be more careful about their decisions.Dukes and other 5 women employee can quit. But because they acted against to their company, other firms could hesitate to hire them. Because if they act in the same way,

Walmart should increase the control of each store in different states by monitoring, and evaluating.

With this way headquarter can have all the control by putting pressure on store managers.

To change the mind set about women.

To put light on women injustice at their work place.

http://jbsq.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/JBSQ_5F.pdf

WOMENlarge responsibilitiesprefer flexible working scheduleCreate a balance betweenworking and personal lifeVery emotionalNot see as a good decision maker

MENOne responsibilityWork moreWork over timesMore RationalSeen as more confidantGood decision maker

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DISCRIMINATIONOCCURS BY GENDER ROLES

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

:-Martin Luther King Jr.

By:-

Mayank Srivastava

Harsh Millal

Sukhsharan Singh

Shubham Patel