Wal-Mart hit by lawsuit on gender bias

Wednesday, June 23, 2004

A sex-discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. won class-action status Tuesday, allowing it to include up to 1.6 million current and former female employees in the largest private civil rights case in U.S. history.

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