Secondary sex characteristics are features which make it possible to tell the sexes of a species apart. They are not directly linked to reproduction.
Male birds usually have much more colourful feathers (plumage), the females are usually better able to hide, because their plumage is camouflaged.
Well-known secondary sex characteristics in humans are for men: low voice tone, facial hair (mustache and beard) and more muscular build, shoulders wider, bones heavier, hands and feet bigger, height taller. In women, those characteristics usually cited are more prominent breasts, lips, eyes, long/fast growing hair, no facial hair, wider hips, more fat, and a higher voice tone. Faces, generally, make a big impact. It is the part other people interact with when meeting each other.
Some features are based on necessity. The wider hips of women are needed to give birth. Babies are born through the space between the three bones of a woman's pelvis. So is doubtful to call this a secondary characteristic, except so far as the width helps attract mates. Breasts are also essential, but in humans they are much larger in proportion to other mammals, and they do serve to attract males.