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Hello and welcome to the Double X-Gab Fast for Thursday, March 30th.

I'm Jessica Gross, managing editor of Double X, and with me in New York is Nina Rastoggi, who is an editor of Double X X and runs the Browbeat blog for Slate.

Hi, Nina.

Hi, Jess.

And in D.C. is Hannah Rosen, Double X founding editor.

How are you, Hannah?

I'm excellent.

It's cold, but excellent.

So today is the Double X Gab Fest Crazy Pants Edition, and we will be discussing the sex discrimination suit against Walmart,

Michelle Bachman's potential run for president, and Tina Faye's new book, Bossy Pants.

So we're going to start with Walmart, and there is a class action sex discrimination suit

currently in front of the Supreme Court.

Hannah, can you tell us a bit more about the question in front of the Supreme Court and its implications for other bias suits and just sort of what's going on in this case?

Yeah, I'm incredibly fond of this case, not for reasons that the media has been fond of this, which is that it is potentially the largest

employment discrimination class action suit in American history. It involves 1.5 million women.

This is what you'll read in the lead of every single newspaper. And so this is a fairly

legalistic issue involving when a group of people and how large a group of people can be

before they can count as a class

action. So that's one of the legal issues before the court. They're not actually considering

the issue I'm interested in, which are the actual discrimination issues involved. To me, this is a

case that really captures the problem that has no name as it exists right now in American history.

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