---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 C.F.R. § 60-20.3"
title: "41"
number: "60-20.3"
heading: "Sex as a bona fide occupational qualification."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/41/60-20.3"
---

# §60-20.3. Sex as a bona fide occupational qualification.


Contractors may not hire and employ employees on the basis of sex unless sex is a bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ) reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the contractor's particular business or enterprise.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 201, E.O. 11246, 30 FR 12319, 3 CFR, 1964-1965 Comp., p. 339 as amended by E.O. 11375, 32 FR 14303, 3 CFR 1966-1970 Comp., p. 684; E.O. 12086, 43 FR 46501, 3 CFR 1978 Comp., p. 230; E.O. 13279, 67 FR 77141, 3 CFR, 2002 Comp., p. 258; and E.O. 13672, 79 FR 42971.

### Source

Source: 81 FR 39166, June 15, 2016, unless otherwise noted.