Glass Ceiling

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Glass Ceiling

Introduction

The paper extricates the crucial case of gender based discrimination at workable in the Wal-Mart store. The aim of the paper is to highlight the concept of the sexuality based inequality and discrimination career growth trend in the corporate culture of the US.

The aim of the paper is to discuss the most controversial issue of the Wal-Mart global chain, women glass ceiling, in the context of salary and employment administration. The paper extricates the legal lawsuits of the women workers of the Wal-Mart against the gender based discrimination approach that prevails in the Wal-Mart stores at international level. In order to elucidate the issue, the paper highlights different reviews from the authentic sources to make the justification valid.

Discussion

The paper discusses the overall strategy approach of the multinational retailing corporation, Wal-Mart, regarding the overall employment and salary administration. Large numbers of discount stores and warehouses are running under the charge of the Wal-Mart Corporation. The company caters international market with more than 8,500 stores in different 15 countries under more than 55 different names. The aim of the paper is to highlight the issue regarding the women glass ceiling in the Wal-Mart global chain.

Gender based discrimination has been observed in numerous ways at workplaces in America. Working women have genuine complaint that white men have priority over women and other minorities (Martens, J. L., 2011). Same is the commonly observed trend at the Wal-Mart stores. They usually follow gender based discrimination approach as their employment administration strategy. The women employees of the Wal-Mart Corporation field their lawsuits against the sexual discrimination environment of the Wal-Mart stores in the federal court of San Francisco. They claimed that the store hidden policies throwing them away from the management for the reason that they are women and the approach of the Wal-Mart management follows the sexuality based discrimination. According to the plaintiffs, the company has a trend of promotion males rather than the female workers and they made the management of the Wal-Mart make their judgements on the basis of gender discrimination rather than performance and professional skills (Gereffi, G. and Christian, M., 2009).

The law of the United States of the America prohibits the discrimination on the basis of sexuality, race and ethnicity at work place. The law provides equal rights to the citizens of the United States regardless of their gender, race and ethnicity (Duncan, G. J., & Murnane, R. J., 2011). However, it should be noticed that the management of the Wal-Mart stores net found guilty of conducting unethical gender based decimation at work. The reason is that the management of the Wal-Mart usually settle down class-action cases outside the court. But still the positive side is that such a large case of sexuality discrimination at the work place brought the focus of the national law towards the sensitive issue of the 20th century regarding the discrimination based distribution of rights (Isobel, C., 2010).

The glass ceiling of the Wal-Mart is an unethical as ...