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(802 posts)As a Director, Clinton Moved Wal-Mart Board, but Only So Far
"She was a logical candidate: the wife of the governor, a Wal-Mart shareholder with stock eventually worth nearly $100,000 and a highly regarded lawyer at the Rose Law Firm, which had represented Wal-Mart in several cases.
But if her circumstances made her a natural choice for the board, her often liberal beliefs did not and she struggled to change the rigid, conservative culture at Wal-Mart, achieving modest results.
Early in her tenure, she pressed for information about the number of women in Wal-Marts management, worrying aloud that the companys hiring practices might be discriminatory.
The data she received would have been troubling: by 1985, there was not a single woman among the companys top 42 officers, according to In Sam We Trust, the 1998 book about Wal-Mart by Bob Ortega.
John E. Tate, who served as a director with Mrs. Clinton from 1988 to 1992, recalled that by her third board meeting Mrs. Clinton had announced that you can expect me to push on issues for women. You know that. I have a reputation of trying to improve the status of women generally, and I will do it here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/us/politics/20walmart.html?pagewanted=all