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Walmart To Announce Plans To Focus On Women

The New York Times, Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:15 AM

Walmart wants to help women-owned businesses and women workers, so it says. The company, still dealing with the possibility of sex discrimination claims after the Supreme Court threw out a class-action suit by women workers this summer, said it planned to source a total of $20 billion in products from women-owned businesses in the United States over the next five years.

The company said it would also support training of women in factories and farms that are Walmart suppliers, and will donate $100 million to causes supporting women's economic development. It will also, per a statement, ask its vendors and services firms like ad agencies or public relations firms to increase gender and minority representation on their Walmart accounts.

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