Benefits boon. (Insurance).The number of U.S. employers offering health insurance benefits to workers' same-sex same-sex adj. 1. Involving or restricted to members of the same sex: same-sex schools. 2. Of or involving gay men or lesbians: same-sex couples; same-sex marriage. domestic partners rose by 16% last year, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a study released May 16 by the Washington, D.C.-based gay advocacy group Human Rights Campaign. At least 806 employers of all sizes expanded their health benefits in 2002 to cover same-sex partners same-sex partner Social medicine A domestic partner of the same genotypic sex. See Homosexual. , including ChevronTexaco Corp.; Sears, Roebuck, and Co.; and Procter & Gamble. A total of 5,698 employers offered health benefits to same-sex partners by the end of last year, according to the study. Married couples still get more workplace benefits than gays and lesbians. But HRC's education director, Kim I. Mills, said progress is being made. "As employers offer domestic partners benefits, that's a step toward a level playing field See net neutrality. ," she said. |
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