[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 5]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 14CFR1253.550]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

                          SPACE ADMINISTRATION

 

PART 1253_NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF SEX IN EDUCATION PROGRAMS 

OR ACTIVITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE--Table of Contents

 

Subpart E_Discrimination on the Basis of Sex in Employment in Education 

                    Programs or Activities Prohibited

 

Sec. 1253.550  Sex as a bona fide occupational qualification.



    A recipient may take action otherwise prohibited by 

Sec. Sec. 1253.500 through 1253.550 provided it is shown that sex is a 

bona fide occupational qualification for that action, such that 

consideration of sex with regard to such action



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is essential to successful operation of the employment function 

concerned. A recipient shall not take action pursuant to this section 

that is based upon alleged comparative employment characteristics or 

stereotyped characterizations of one or the other sex, or upon 

preference based on sex of the recipient, employees, students, or other 

persons, but nothing contained in this section shall prevent a recipient 

from considering an employee's sex in relation to employment in a locker 

room or toilet facility used only by members of one sex.