like-gendered

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Adjective[edit]

like-gendered (comparative more like-gendered, superlative most like-gendered)

  1. Sharing the same or similar gender.
    • 1997, Alan C. Elms, Uncovering Lives:
      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.
    • 2016, Peter Ikeler, Hard Sell, page 179:
      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.