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Federal law prohibits employers from discriminating based on characteristics such as race, color, religion, sex and national origin as well as age and disabilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
She later said she wished she had never met the late sex offender.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Whether or not it’s fair to compare Take-Two’s investigation of a leaked video game with the DOJ fumbling inquiries into participants of a global sex trafficking ring, the internet has certainly taken notice.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
The latest findings, published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity, show notable differences in dementia risk by sex, race, ethnicity, and genetics.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
While the Fifteenth Amendment did not mention sex, she said that because it specifically prohibited disenfranchisement by race, women were included, arguing that “a race comprises all the people, male and female.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
The findings could eventually help scientists better understand why aging and longevity differ between the sexes, although much more research is needed before the results can be translated into health recommendations.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
For years, researchers studying immune differences between the sexes were limited by technology.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
As Justice Ginsburg wrote in Virginia, quoting an earlier case: “Physical differences between men and women . . . are enduring: ‘The two sexes are not fungible.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
No one disputes that there are physical differences between the sexes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
She believed this critique was essential to getting equality between the sexes.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
The space and resources dedicated to roosters at animal sanctuaries are often devoted to backyard chickens that were improperly sexed.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
"Lyra is coping well with first-time motherhood and the pup, who's yet to be sexed, also appears healthy and alert," Mr Brown said.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2022
Last year, a paper published in Scientific Reports showed that, contrary to prior understanding, softshell turtles possess sex chromosomes, which means that they can be sexed using DNA analysis.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 24, 2018
A series of swift, scientific maneuvers followed: The researchers measured, sexed and appraised the animal.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2017
Stay, Sophocles,—with this tie up my sight; Let not soft nature so transformed be, And lose her gentler sexed humanity, To make me see my lord bleed.
From Essays — First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a statement, the group said that smaller European hatcheries were better positioned to adopt in-ovo sexing and that American producers want to use it.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2024
Short of that, though, other non-invasive egg sexing technologies have also been developed in Europe.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2021
That might in part be because of more accurate ways of sexing skeletons.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2018
Turtle sexing is key for research purposes, and also for conservationists who are trying to pair mates.
From The Verge ● Jul. 29, 2017
Having discussed with my neighbour in the country the difficulty of sexing her ducklings, I now know, as Donne surely did, that sexing can be far from straightforward.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
