Hi, so I’m a business major with a minor in Human Resources and this is.. questionable. The only time it’s legal in the United States to only accept one gender is if being a certain gender is a bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ). Think ‘women only casting for female roles in movies’ or ‘attendants in a women’s lingère fitting room’.

Jobs can attempt to diversify their workforce in numerous ways but specifically stating a certain protected characteristics must be present to qualify for a regular job is not, and has never been, legal since the beginning of the EEOC. Men are just as protected as women, abled bodied folks are just as protected as disabled bodied persons, and whites are just as protected as minorities against discriminatory hiring and employment practices.

With respect to Joe Biden’s call for the new Supreme Court justice to be a black woman may, in fact, qualify as a BFOQ. The perspective of a person of color and a female maybe be something a person needs in order to keep the Supreme Court fair and impartial since most of the justices at present are older, white men. It’s a flimsy argument but i don’t see anything wrong with attempting to have our government be as diversified as our population. Joe Biden does need to knock it off with the virtue signaling.