sex-plus

adjective

Having as factors a person's gender and some other factor related to that gender.

“She brought a sex-plus case against her employer for hiring older men but refusing to hire older women.”

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Meanings

adjectivesex-plus (not comparable)

alternative sex plus

  1. USnot comparablelawHaving as factors a person's gender and some other factor related to that gender.

    She brought a sex-plus case against her employer for hiring older men but refusing to hire older women.

    2 more examples

    Her theory was a “sex plus” discrimination claim, alleging that the company did not promote fat women.

    2008, Anna Rutherford, Fat rights: dilemmas of difference and personhood, page 163

    […] the latter can perhaps be protected either by including the employee's private life among the grounds of prohibited discrimination, or under the ground of sex, as a sex-plus situation.

    2010, Roger Blanpain, Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Industrialized Market Economies
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