Meanings
comparative more like-gendered · superlative most like-gendered
- Sharing the same or similar gender.
Psychobiography as a still-developing field will not benefit from being divided into preserves where certain subjects are studied only by like-gendered or like-cultured or like-minded psychobiographers.
1997, Alan C. Elms, Uncovering Lives1 more example
Thus despite sex-typing at Macy's and Target—the placing of salespersons in like-gendered departments and women more often in interactive roles that paid less—women were not much more class-conscious than men.
2016, Peter Ikeler, Hard Sell, page 179
Origin
From like + gender + -ed. Compare like-minded, like-cultured, etc.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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