Argument Essay

I was interested in problems of Wal-Mart after reading some articles about it. Wal-Mart is a famous store in the small town, and E. Locke said, “Wal-Mart is one of the most impressive success stories in the history of business” (2004, par. 4). And Wal-Mart will move into banking, used car sales, travel and internet access. However, Murphysboro and Carbondale might deny Wal-Mart because Wal-Mart will make small business have some problems whether people will not go to buy some groceries with small business. 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”. 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). Wal-Mart’s bad conditions for women have caused some shopper to be angry, and some women have started a boycott, but in general many people still shop there because they cannot resist low prices on pants, towels or canned goods.

There are many ways that Wal-Mart should do between men and women.

The first and most important way is Wal-Mart should have equality between men and women. Women should get the same wage as men because they can work like men do also. For instance, if women do work seriously, they should get a good income. I think it is unfair if they are industrious workers and work as many hours as men, but they did not get wage equality with other men. Sometimes, men may be lazy or not do work seriously, so how do they manage that? Wal-Mart should not discriminate between women and men. It is not fair, if females earn less money on average per year than males, even though women work the same quantity as men.

Moreover, Wal-Mart should get women in positions by job description. This method may be good for Wal-Mart because if Wal-Mart does that way, they may get more quality work from women. For instance, if women who can do the same things as men such as lifting something heavy, they should be able to have those jobs, so Wal-Mart should consider that. It helps Wal-Mart to have good employees, and then Wal-Mart can pay the same salary to women as to men.

Furthermore, Wal-Mart should survey about women’s jobs or what kind of jobs that women know well. If Wal-Mart knows about that job, they can focus on the position and find the best employee to work in their company. For example, some women are good at organization, so they may organize material or check stock. Some women know well about medicine and want to work about that, so they can work in the medicine store.

In conclusion, there are many ways that Wal-Mart should manage women. First, Wal-Mart should have equality between men and women. Second, Wal-Mart should get people in position by job description. Last, Wal-Mart should survey about women’s job. In the end, the result will be that women can be good as employees as men. Some women have good ability to do any work, so how does Wal-Mart know that men should get more wage than women? How can they measure that?

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
Wal-Mart vs. women

United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. (UFCW). (no date). Wal-Martizaton of women’s jobs. Retrieved on Feb. 20, 2006 from http://www.ufcw.org/issues_and_actions/walmart_workers_campaign_info/facts_and_figures/walmartandwomen.cfmWal-Martization of women's job