Liza Featherstone Moderated by Cleo Silvers
In 2000, Betty Dukes, a 52-year-old black woman in Pittsburg, California, became the lead plaintiff in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, a class action representing 1.6 million women. In an investigation of this historic lawsuit, journalist Liza Featherstone reveals how Wal-Mart, a self-styled "family-oriented," Christian company deprives women of the training they need to advance, relegates women to lower-paying jobs, like selling baby clothes, reserving the more lucrative positions for men. The company also inflicts punitive demotions on employees like Betty Dukes who object to discrimination. Selling Women Short combines the personal stories of Wal-Mart employees with investigative journalism to show why women who work these low-wage jobs are getting a raw deal, and what they are doing about it.
Liza Featherstone, a contributing editor to The Nation magazine, is a freelance journalist and Brecht Forum board member.
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