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like-gendered en · ADJ

Etymology

From like + gender + -ed. Compare like-minded, like-cultured, etc.

Meanings

1. Sharing the same or similar gender.
   • 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:
   • 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 Lives:

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