As a result of the law requirement, my analysis is that the Supreme Court decision not to allow this case to be decided as a class action was the perfect decision. The case was not about whether or not Wal-Mart discriminated but if a group of workers could bring a case forward based on gender. Had the decision gone the other way it would have changed how business hire and fire employees. The core of the plaintiffs' discrimination case is statistical. Wal-Mart draws most of its managers from its hourly wage employees, of which 72 percent are women. But at the time the lawsuit was filed only one-third of Wal-Mart's managers were women, and according to the plaintiffs, "even this figure overstates the proportion of female managers [because
