Treat People Equally Market Basket!

I worked PT at a grocery store that had a similar policy. The thing
is, you were required to have stocking experience in order to
"qualify" for promotions, but women weren't allowed to stock.
Eventually they got sued, it cost the chain a lot of money and they
had to change their hiring and employment practices.

As a feminist, both of these situations are sexist and unfair, to both
men and women.

It is discrimination. The idea is that female cashiers are more
pleasant to the senses and makes the customer service experience
better. In other countries you can only get hired if you are
attractive and young, some companies even have height/weight limits
for their staff in customer service positions... yes I'm still talking
about regular retail stores.

In the USA however, such discrimination is illegal and gender equity
states that men and women should be allowed to work the same jobs.

In one of my past retail stores I had a female warehouse attendant.
She handled everything very well and moved the stock around like a
dude. She was a big, tough lady and her husband was a smaller guy.
People are made in a variety to match differently to each other; that
means that some men are big, some are small, some women are strong and
others not so much.

The mentality that only women should be cashiers and only men should
be stockers is extremely outdated and idiotic.

I don't seeing you complaining about that, so I'm guessing not. I
suppose if they are giving males jobs other than as cashiers
everything works out.