sex-plus

See also: sex plus

English

Alternative forms

• sex plus

Adjective

sex-plus (not comparable)

1. (law, US, of a discrimination case) 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.

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

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

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

     […] 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 terms

• plus factor