The company has also agreed to hire experts to address compensation disparities impacting roughly 9,000 women who said they're being paid less than their male counterparts for similar work.

Walt Disney has agreed to pay $43.3 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its female employees in California earned $150 million less than their male counterparts over an eight-year period, the plaintiffs' lawyers said in a statement on Monday.

In a Deadline exclusive, we've learned Disney is writing a check for $43M to finally end a 5-year old pay equity class-action lawsuit

(CNN) – Disney is agreeing to pay $43 million to settle a gender-pay lawsuit. The case involves nearly 9,000 women who claimed they received lower wages compared to their male counterparts. The worker who started the lawsuit said she did so after learning about a $20,000 pay gap with a less experienced colleague with the same title.

Disney is paying $43.25 million to settle a class action lawsuit that it paid women less than men, according to papers that filed in Los Angeles Superior Court Monday night. The suit was originally filed in 2019 by Disney staffers LaRonda Rasmussen and Karen Moore,