Discrimination against Women in WalmartWalmart is a multibillion-dollar retail industry that hires thousands of employees per year. Over the past decade at Walmart, there has been some speculation that Walmart discriminates against women. They employ 815,000 women, or 57% of the US workforce (Reed). Over 2,000 women from each of the 48 states have filed legal complaints against Walmart and the company is said to have a history of unfairly treating these female employees by underpaid ones and how there are so many lawsuits against them given few opportunities advancement (Hines) . I selected this topic because after doing some research I discovered some shocking information about how Walmart supposedly treats their female employees and how there are so many lawsuits filed against them. This relates to my field of study because it shows what happens internally between a company and its employees and how a company's decision affects the employees. This also relates to my field of study because it is an example of what sometimes happens within a company and that is a lawsuit from the employee to the employer. All of these lawsuits started after Betty Dukes, a 54-year-old employee of a Walmart who had worked there for six years realized that she was not getting the same advancement opportunities as her male colleagues (Toobin). A statistic from a New Yorker article states that 72% of the workforce is made up of women and a third of them hold management positions (Toobin). After 11 years in court, the case was decided in Walmart's favor because, despite there being more than a million claimants, it was decided that they were not equally discriminated against. Even though she lost the case, Betty Dukes continues to carry out her first paper ladies around the world. Even though the cases are clear with enough evidence against them, Walmart seems to argue the same thing every time, that the women filing the case against them don't have enough in common. I believe the argument is invalid because, from what I have studied, every woman who opposed Walmart banded together to defend rights they felt were unfair and unethical. One of their managers told an employee that men should be paid more, and that's right. This statement alone justifies the argument against them. The fight for equality for working women is ongoing and I believe women will continue to fight until they get what they want. Bottom line, women deserve the same opportunities as men and should not have to go to the Supreme Court to get something that every person should have.