Empowering women

Find the company selected for the Week 2 assignment’s(Walmart) annual report from SEC.gov or the investor relations section of the company’s website. Be careful not to use quarterly reports. ( I have included the link).
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you describe the relationship between strategic and financial planning. Include the following:
Company from week 2 Walmart Walmart’s 2013 Annual Report. I have provided the link for your convenience.

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The 2013 Global Responsibility Report, the company’s sixth update, includes information on Walmart’s progress on initiatives including sustainability, women’s empowerment, charitable contributions, compliance, safety, benefits, diversity and governance. A copy of this report can also be viewed at http://stock.walmart.com/annual-reports.

Our paper is going to be on Opportunity; Empowering Women Worldwide (pg. 68). Diversity is a big initiative in businesses and this could be a good topic.
My portion is = Risks associated with the initiative and it needs to be 400 words.

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Audre Lords words ,When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.” . This clearly spurred the initiative of empowering women globally when it dawned on them that silence while they are being oppressed was certainly doing them no good. On this realization women began becoming vocal on an array of issues that before only the opinions of their male counterparts mattered owing to the fact that they were the sole decision…………….

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