Research proposal

I was interested in problems of Wal-Mart after reading some articles about it. I knew that Wal-Mart has many problems such as entering banking, relation with small business and treatment of women. I think I am interested in the topic of Wal-Mart and women because I would like to know what the problem between Wal-Mart and women is. The problem is that Wal-Mart does not have equality between men and women. Women feel unsatisfied about that. According to David Kravets (2005), Wal-Mart is defending itself against a lawsuit filed on behalf of 1.6 million former and current women employees (par.3). There are many problems with this. One of the reasons is Wal-Mart denies raises and promotion to women and pays less money to women than men. Another problem is women have no health care or maternity leave, even though they work from 7.30 A.M. to 8 P.M. seven days per week (Quinn, 2005, par. 5). Wal-Mart's bad conditions for women have caused some shoppers to be angry, and some women have started a boycott.

I plan on writing that there are three things Wal-Mart should do between men and women. First, Wal-Mart should pay the same wage to women as men and Wal-Mart should also have equality between men and women. Second, Wal-Mart should survey about womens jobs or what kind of jobs that women can do well in order to focus on the position and find the best employee to work in the company. Finally, Wal-Mart should get people in positions by job description because they may get more quality work from women. Also, more research should be done, especially on they way long-term Wal-Mart women employees are able to handle this problem.

I have found some articles that give information about Wal-Mart and women, and have found websites that help me to know the problem. I still need an article about how Wal-Mart and women topic could be used to solve this problem.

Reference:
Kravets, D. (2005, August 5). Wal-Mart, facing billions of dollars in
damages, wants bias case tossed. Financial News. Retrieved on Jan. 23, 2006 from Lexis-Nexis.

Quinn, B. (2005, July 5). Wal-Mart vs. women: sisterhood should draw line in sand. Times Herald-Record, Middletown NY. Retrieved on Jan. 30, 2006 from http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2004/07/05/bethcolj.htm

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