Enhanced Member Management Module

I have been hunting in the forums and on the EE devoted sites for some time, and it seems that an item I have (a security/permission issue) is a common issue, yet noone has a definitive solution. With that in mind, I am posting here in hopes of finding someone with a solution or the gumption to develop a solution.

Channels Articles News

Categories People Groups: - Men - Women - Kids Roles: - Professionals - Homemakers - Students

Member Groups Member Editor Publisher

In the course of operations, we need to create a system that allows our site members to hold a level of publication permissions (currently controlled at the member group level) but will also classify the member to their access permissions (that is also correlated to the content).

For instance: A member (Publisher) submits an article (publishers can submit within all channels) that is classified (categorized) as an article relevant to ‘Professional’, ‘Men’. If a regular member logs on, and that member has been classified as a ‘Professional’ or a ‘Man’ (or if the author decides it must be both), then only those members that meet these criteria would see the dynamic content.

Thus, the problem we are having is correlating the classification of content to the classification of members (since members can only be part of one membergroup). In a very large site (or a linked system within MSM), with a LOT of different classifications of both content and members, the utilization of membergroups is unfeasible.

IS there a current way to correlate members access permissions to categories? (members that are classified as ‘Men’ - could see content categorized for ‘Men’)

OR, is there a better way to do this?