Initiated in September, 2011 for a period of five years(2011-2016)

Poised to be the largest investment of a corporate house dedicated to

advancing the role of women , both internally and externally.
SOURCING
Sourced $20 billion from women-owned firms in its US division
Technical & Financial support to such firms
International sourcing from women owned firms was doubled.
TRAINING
Train 1million women in areas that supported its supply chain and
global operations.
Focus on women in developing countries in the farms, in factories
and in retail sectors
Provide better & improved career opportunities to low-income
group women

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

Promote gender diversity in its major suppliers and professional
services firms

CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY & NONPROFIT/GOVERNMENT

PARTNERSHIPS
Partnered with various governmental & non-governmental
organizations such as CARE , Dress For Success , HOPE Foundation,
etc. to complement its training and development commitments

Shortly after Duke became CEO he created the Presidents Global council for
women leaders. He developed it to be a catalyst for change. It had 4 main
objectives:To develop and advance women leaders
To build a pipeline of women talent
To promote inclusion
To invest in women externally

GWEEI was a direct outcome of the 4th objective and it made sense as 80%
of the customers were women.

The idea that Walmart is going to do its

own front-of-package label to identify those
products is particularly annoying. They are
doing this just when the Institute of Medicine
and FDA are trying to establish researchbased criteria for front-of-package labels. So
here is one more company trying to preempt
FDA regulations. [Marion Nestle]

The company was reported to be taking a

similar
approach
to
chemical
formulations of products by establishing its
own screening process (self-regulation)
rather than relying on a federal agency to
take care of the regulatory processes.

Walmart has long been known for being antiunion. Jim Hightower reported several years
ago: "'While unions might be appropriate for
other companies, they have no place at WalMart
Walmart has also been accused of
illegal
political
activism,
sometimes
intimidating employees to vote for the
political party of its choice

Forces other retailers to also sell at a loss, OR

cancel orders for that promotable product
because they cannot compete with the
artificially low price that has been set.

The end result is that the toys will ultimately

sell fewer units because Walmart will be the
only game in town selling it. The toy
manufacturers and even the inventors suffer.

Labeling packaging as recyclable is not good

enough if there are no markets or recycling
facilities to handle the packaging waste.

There have also been cases of blatant

disregard for the environment, for example
when it paid fines for Clean Water Act
violations and poor safety practices in 2004