Sex-plus
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Sex-plus is an adjective meaning (law, US, of a discrimination case) Having as factors a person's gender and some other factor related to that gender.
Meaning
(law, US, of a discrimination case) Having as factors a person's gender and some other factor related to that gender.
Example Sentences
Her theory was a “sex plus” discrimination claim, alleging that the company did not promote fat women.
She brought a sex-plus case against her employer for hiring older men but refusing to hire older women.
[…] 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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include intersex, sexlinked, sex-influenced, sex-limited, cissexual, xenosexual.
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