legally married but their boss disagrees

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/02/legally-married-but-not-according-to-their-boss/385673/

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Call it a little ditty about Jackie and Diana: Jacqueline Cote and Diana Smithson met on Cape Cod in 1992, fell in love, and moved to Maine together in 1998. They both got jobs at Walmart, working side by side in the bakery department. In 2003, they decided to make it official. They moved to Massachusetts and, five days after the state made it legal, they got married. They both continued to work in various positions at Walmart stores.

In 2006, Cote was promoted to a management job, where she made significantly more money and generally enjoyed the work. The following year, Smithson quit her own job in order to care for Cote’s elderly mother, who had dementia.

Cote tried to add Smithson to her health-insurance plan as a spouse. When she logged into Walmart’s employee-benefits site, she said it required her to select her spouse’s gender.