Betty Dukes
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FILE - In this March 29, 2011 file photo, the five plaintiffs in a case of women employees against Wal-Mart, from left, Stephanie Odle, of Norman, Okla., Betty Dukes, of Pittsburg, Calif., Deborah Gunter, of Palm Springs, Calif., Christine Kwapnoski, of Bay Point, Calif., and Edith Arena, of Duarte, Calif. pose for a photograph outside the Supreme Court in Washington. Dukes, a Walmart greeter who took the retail giant all the way to the U.S. Supreme court in the largest gender bias class-action lawsuit in U.S. history, died July 10. 2017, at her home in Antioch, Calif., said her niece Rita Roland. she was 67. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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Wal-Mart employee Betty Dukes was involved in a sex-discrimination lawsuit against the retail giant that the Supreme Court on Monday ruled could not proceed. (Associated Press)