In 2001, six female employees in California filed suit against Wal-Mart, triggering the largest class action lawsuit in American history involving more than one million current and former female employees. Women in the Wal-Mart “family” make up more than two-thirds of its hourly employees, but hold only one-third of managerial positions, according to a report in the Financial Times. The report also notes that only 15 percent of Wal-Mart store managers are women. Check out to learn more. Wal-Mart sometimes doesn’t even pay its low wages at all. Poverty level wages are bad enough. But Wal-Mart apparently feels that not paying wages at all is even better for its bottom line.