Allen

Anna Allen
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The interviewee with whom I spoke said that in regards to gender, her workplace was very interesting.  All the people at the top of the ladder were male, and that she is the only female manager in her store, of maybe two in all of the Fresno stores.  She has to do a lot of heavy lifting and stuff, and when they got a new district manager (an exchange of a male for a male), he started questioning her and how she was doing her job, though she's very highly recognized for her work.  She doesn't think he's being deliberately sexist, but he has this mindset that any women in their store can't do their job.  She says he will never point out anything positive unless he feels he has to.

She says she knows all the pay for her coworkers, and for all her male coworkers doing the same job as her, they're paid $0.25 more than her.  One of her coworkers has been offered his own store three times, and even though she is working the same position for the same amount of time, she has never been offered that same position. 
She says her manager will still question her several times a week, and not just her, but all the women in their workplace.  They're training a new girl, and he's giving her a really hard time, and when the interviewee was undergoing the same training, she went through in a couple of weeks, but with this district manager, this new girl is going on a couple months.  The interviewee says that it's very obvious how he treats women.  When a worker came back from maternity leave, he told her she couldn't pump, and all the female workers were horrified.  The girl ended up quitting.  Now the one they're training is pregnant, and the interviewee is interested in how that will play out. 

She has confronted this manager about how he treats her, what with her experience, and he has been a lot more respectful toward her, but she says he still has these ideas that they can't do what men do.  She says it's very frustrating.  All the other men she works with are very respectful, but this one and the ones in the upper ranks seem different.  She thinks they're not doing it on purpose, but that it's just kinda how it is.