It is the belief of a lot of people that gender discrimination, especially discrimination against women, died out in the 1970s. Women can have any job they desire, and the legislation protecting them is solid and has been upheld by the court system time and time again. But are all employers truly supporting women better than they used to almost four decades ago, or are some of them still slipping through the cracks?

Unfortunately, some of today’s largest employers in the United States are being found guilty or are being sued in open court by female employees who claim they have been discriminated against. Wal-Mart is one of these employers. A judgment by the ninth circuit court of appeals decided in February of 2007 that the equal pay suit against Wal-Mart could be considered a class action suit representing 1.5 million female Wal-Mart employees. This is the biggest class action suit in history, and it proves that gender discrimination is not dead.