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sex-plus en · ADJ
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(US, not-comparable, of a discrimination case) Having as factors a person's gender and some other factor related to that gender.
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:She brought a sex-plus case against her employer for hiring older men but refusing to hire older women.
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plus factor