Definition of "gender-specific" []

• Of, for, or associated with persons of one gender to the exclusion of the other: gender-specific health care; gender-specific behavior. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "You will have the guys (and when I use “guys” I use it in the non gender-specific way, referring to a group of people) who are into body building."
• "One commenter has described poor communication: This is a problem for everyone, it's not necessarily gender-specific."
• "Current and future research should continue to report gender-specific results so we can see if the benefits and risks of the treatment are similar in men and women and report them in future guidelines, Dolor says."