ORLANDO, Fla. — Disney has agreed to a $43 million settlement in a gender-pay lawsuit involving nearly 9,000 women. The lawsuit claimed women were paid less than their male counterparts. In one case, an employee found a $20,000 pay gap compared to a less experienced coworker.

Female Disney workers in California would receive $43.25 million to end their class action lawsuit over gender pay disparities under a proposed settlement.

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.

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,