[commandlinefan]

You do realize that although no job ad has ever been worded that way, there actually are MANY job ads that specify "female applicants only" and more and more "POC only" (or "strongly preferred")?

[namirez]

I've never seen such ads in my entire engineering career. But if they do exist as you suggest, it must be a "bona fide occupational qualification" or it's not legal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bona_fide_occupational_qualifi...