Mr. Morrison said he was contacted by Ms. Rose after the Times article was published and that the lawsuit had been filed without first making an attempt to settle the matter privately. He said that he had been contacted by other women potentially interested in joining the suit.

The lawsuit says that Ms. Rose, an employee at Vice from 2014 to 2016, learned that she and other women made “far less” than their male colleagues for the same or similar work when she received an internal company document in 2015 that listed the salaries of 35 Vice Media employees. Ms. Rose hired a male subordinate who made about $25,000 more per year than her, and he later was promoted to work as her supervisor, according to the suit. The suit also says a male executive told Ms. Rose that the male employee was “a good personality fit” for male clients.

According to the suit, Ms. Rose spoke with other women who worked at Vice Media who said that they were paid less than men who did the same or similar work. One example was a woman who earned about $50,000 a year while a man in a similar job made about $15,000 more. “When this same female employee was later promoted to the position of managing editor, defendants paid her approximately $15,000 less per year than the male employee that previously held the managing editor position,” the lawsuit says.

Alice Speri, a journalist who worked at Vice, said on Twitter on Tuesday that she was paid substantially less than a male colleague.

“There was technically another ‘head’ writer but he had less experience & barely wrote — he made nearly twice my salary,” she wrote.