Disney Faces Dramatic Escalation In $150M+ Gender Discrimination & Pay Equity Suit

More than four years after Walt Disney Studios staffers LaRonda Rasmussen and Karen Moore first filed a complaint accusing the Mouse House of discriminating against female workers by paying them less than men, attorneys for the duo and other women are today asking a California judge to allow them to turn the matter into a class-action suit. Read more on Deadline.

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