plus factor

Any trait of a person, such as their race, that may give them an advantage under affirmative action.

Noun

  1. Any trait of a person, such as their race, that may give them an advantage under affirmative action.
    • Race may therefore not be the only determining factor in the allocation, but race may be considered as a plus factor that may be taken into account. - 2001, Johan Rabe, Equality, Affirmative Action and Justice, page 143:
    • Three white women challenged the admissions system, which gave applicants “plus factors” or "points" for being non-white […] - 2005, Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, volume 28, page 225:
    • These plans can take many forms including outreach, special training programs, race or gender as plus factors, and goals and timetables. - 2007, Anderson C. Williams, A Concise Summary of Human Resource Management:

Forms

plus factors

Related

sex-plus