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.