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Key STATISTICS from Retails choice & CNN

  • The retail trade industry accounts for 13.4% of the EEOC’s sexual harassment claims. This includes department stores, grocery stores, florists, gas stations, office supply stores, and other retail stores.

  • Like the food services industry, many retail roles are low-paying and occupied predominantly by women.

    • 29% of low wage women in retail live in or near poverty, 49% of all retail workers are women, and 55% of all low-wage retail workers are women

  • 70% of Black and Latino full and part-time retail sales workers earn less than $15 per hour, as compared to 58% of white retail workers.

  • The Center for Popular Democracy reports that 18% of women have upper-management positions, even though they make up 60% of first-line supervisors. People of color, mainly referring to black and Latino, are delegated to low-level, low-paying positions. Furthermore, older and experienced employees do not receive benefits or long-term rewards.

 
 

INDUSTRY NEWS

When a sexual harasser is a customer

By Julia Carpenter, CNN Money

 
 

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