{"id":5983,"date":"2011-09-19T16:18:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T15:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=5983"},"modified":"2011-09-21T15:12:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T14:12:44","slug":"wal-mart-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2011\/09\/19\/wal-mart-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart and Women: Skeptics Question New Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/working\/entry\/11982\/walmart_and_women_skeptics_question_new_initiative\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5984\" title=\"110920_walmart\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/110920_walmart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Last week, Wal-Mart announced the latest component of its relatively  successful campaign to shift its image from corporate villain to  socially responsible role model. The company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/09\/14\/us-walmart-women-idUSTRE78D0JW20110914\">promised<\/a> that it would double its business with women-owned contractors and  suppliers in the U.S. and internationally, and educate and train  hundreds of thousands of women through its nonprofit Wal-Mart  Foundation. That means the company will buy products from more  women-owned factories and farms and hire more women to construct its  stores. The move comes after Wal-Mart was up against the largest sex-discrimination class-action <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/06\/20\/137296721\/supreme-court-limits-Walmart-discrimination-case\">lawsuit<\/a> in history, until the Supreme Court threw it out this summer. Most labor and social justice advocates are glad to see any  corporation change its practices in the face of social and economic  pressure, so Wal-Mart\u2019s recent announcement and its other recent  efforts, such as contracting with minority suppliers, adopting  sustainable environmental practices and increasing diversity and  fairness in its stores, can be seen as small victories for campaigns  that expose Wal-Mart\u2019s practices. But many labor and watchdog groups are still skeptical of the  mega-corporation\u2019s sincerity and the larger significance of its  corporate responsibility initiatives, and they are calling on the  company to continue examining and reforming its practices in a big way. <a href=\"http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/working\/entry\/11982\/walmart_and_women_skeptics_question_new_initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global | Company: Wal-Mart | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/working\/entry\/11982\/walmart_and_women_skeptics_question_new_initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\">In These Times<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Wal-Mart announced the latest component of its relatively successful campaign to shift its image from corporate villain to socially responsible role model. The company promised that it would double its business with women-owned contractors and suppliers in the U.S. and internationally, and educate and train hundreds of thousands of women through its nonprofit&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-5983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-wal-mart","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5983"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=5983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}