Alright, a little backstory: I used to work for a well-known grocery chain, and the sexism in the store was ridiculous. (Abuse was too, but that's another story for another subreddit.)

One of the head clerks was a radical feminist, and everyone knew it. Not because she was super vocal about it—though she was at times, occasionally making misandristic remarks—but because of the way she treated male employees versus how she treated female ones.

Here are a few examples of such treatment:

  • If something needed to be done, but it entailed any sort of labor or tedium, the head clerk would force a male employee to do it, even if he were extremely busy and a female employee were chatting it up with another. (This was even worse when a female employee were specifically assigned to something for the day, and the head clerk ignored this.)

  • If a male were to make a joke, or were to comment on something, they'd likely be reprimanded by her, no matter what the context. Were a female to do one of those things, they'd be treated to an easier workload. If it were something misandristic, they'd practically be let home early—with pay.

  • She would watch, or have others watch, the male employees to make sure they did everything they needed to. What about the female employees? "Pssh, why watch them? They're not going to go around raping customers or anything."

  • As she was the person in management that gave employee reports to the store manager, things would be heavily skewed. Women were never spoken harshly to, no matter how poorly they performed; very few men lasted in the store because you couldn't be too good (who knows why), but you couldn't be anything less than near-perfect.

  • If a female employee said anything against a male employee, they better have been praying that they'd keep their job. Obviously anything they said against the claim was a lie.

(I know those aren't exactly blatant, in-your-face examples, but there was so much going on that I couldn't keep track of everything, especially more specific things.)

So now, the point of this post: I know there probably isn't much that can be done legally in regards to my experience and myself as past employee (though you can bet your bottom dollar that all the stuff she and the store manager put me and other male employees through should warrant legal justification), but is there anything I could do for current male employees?

I feel like I should be able to do something for those who are going through exactly what I did, so that they can actually have a fighting chance at that job (especially since it's probably a first job for many of them).

If there is something I can do for myself, what would that be? I just can't understand how this kind of stuff can be allowed.

(In addition, practically every male employee tried to get things straightened out with corporate. However, when contacted, corporate would basically reply, "Suck it up: you work for us.")

tl;dr I used to work for a grocery chain, and one of the managers there was blatantly misandristic. Is there anything I can do to her or the chain (they were rather passive about it even though pretty much every single freaking male employee contacted them) to right this? If not for myself, is there anything I can do for current and future male employees so that they don't have to be subject to this?