Two female Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) employees filed a class-action lawsuit on Thursday, alleging that the Cupertino-based tech giant pays women less than men for the same work. Silicon Valley has seen similar lawsuits in recent years over gender pay inequality. What Happened: The Wall Street Journal reported the lawsuit filing on Thursday. The lawsuit, filed in a San Francisco state court, alleges that Apple’s hiring and performance-review practices promote unfair wage inequality between women and men. A lead attorney on the case represented employees in similar lawsuits against Google and Orac…