On television, Wal-Mart employees are smiling women delighted with their jobs But reality is another story In 2000, Betty Dukes, a fifty-two-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 her explosive investigation of this historic lawsuit, оехэк journalist Liza Featherstone reveals how Wal-Mart, a self-styled "family-oriented," Christian company: Deprives women (but not men) of the training they need to advance Relegates women to lower-paying jobs like selling baby clothes, reserving the more lucrative positions for men Inflicts punitive demotions on employees who object to discrimination Exploits Asian women in its sweatshops in Saipan, a U S commonwealth Featherstone goes on to reveal the creative solutions that Wal-Mart workers around the country have found, like fighting for unions, living-wage ordinances, and childcare options Selling Women Short combines the personal stories of these employees with superb investigative journalism to show why women who work these low-wage jobs are getting a raw deal, and what they are doing about it A new preface to the paperback edition will reflect on Wal-Mart's response to this lawsuit and its critics-including this one.  PERFECT2005 г Мягкая обложка, 290 стр ISBN 0465023169.