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Sex bias claim vs. Wal-Mart goes to court
Posted: 03.27.2011 at 1:49 PM
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Have you seen a sexual bias in your workplace?

(AP/ Washington, D.C.) Christine Kwapnoski says she faced obstacles at Wal-Mart-owned Sam's Club stores in both Missouri and California: Men made more than women and they got promoted faster.

She never heard a supervisor tell a man, as she says one told her, to "doll up" or "blow the cobwebs off" her make-up. Once she got over the fear that she might be fired, she joined what has turned into the largest job discrimination lawsuit ever.

The 46-year-old single mother is one of the named plaintiffs in a suit that will be argued at the Supreme Court on Tuesday. At stake is whether the suit can go forward as a class action, involving up to 1.6 million women. It has the potential to cost the world's largest retailer billions of dollars.

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