Several major corporations have had to pay millions of dollars to settle "gender discrimination" lawsuits. As a result of these rulings, companies are very concerned with the parity of pay of their employees. Consider the following gender discrimination lawsuit. Wal$-$Mart faces the nation's largest workplace gender$-$bias lawsuit. In June $2004,$ U$.$S$.$ District Court Judge Martin Jenkins granted class$-$action status to $1\mathrm{.}6$ million current and former female Wal$-$Mart employees who charge the company with paying women less and offering them fewer opportunities for promotion. $($Updated $9/23/08)$ The Ninth Circuit issued a revised opinion affirming the class certification order.