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Back in April, a class-action lawsuit was filed against Disney claiming that when it comes to pay, the females are paid less than the males.

Disney is not denying that this might be the case, but they basically demanding that women suing it for allegedly violating California Fair Pay Act do so on an individual basis.

The class-action lawsuit was brought forth by two female Disney employees. LaRonda Rasmussen, who has worked for the company for more than a decade as a product development manager, alleges that she is paid less than the men who perform similar work at Walt Disney Studios. Karen Moore, who has spent over two decades working as a senior copyright administrator for Disney's Hollywood Records, makes a similar complaint.

The Hollywood Reporter writes that Disney signaled that it intended to challenge whether Rasmussen and Moore could fairly represent other females at the company, the lawsuit was amended to include eight additional women as plaintiffs (Ginia Eady-Marshall, Enny Joo, Rebecca Train, Amy Hutchins, Nancy Dolan, Anabel Pareja Sinn, Dawn Johnson and Kathy Ly), each at different divisions at the conglomerate hoping to address alleged rampant gender pay discrimination.

"Because Disney's pay practices negatively affect their female co-workers throughout the state, Plaintiffs bring this case as a class action," states the amended complaint.

Disney still isn't satisfied and has now made a move in the case to get the judge to rule they may not proceed collectively.

"The Walt Disney Company described in Plaintiffs' Complaint is not The Walt Disney Company that exists in fact and law," states the defendant's demurrer. "The Disney Companies categorically deny that they pay any female employee less than her similarly situated male coworkers and will vigorously defend themselves against each Plaintiff's individual claims. But that is all this case is — an assortment of individual claims, based on highly individualized allegations."

We have to wonder, the ABC O&O TV stations are the male Anchors paid more than the females? What about in the reporting ranks?

My guess, that in most cases where a male and female are sharing the anchor desk, I bet that the male is making more most of the time.

Ladies, you might want to look into that?