In the Discussion Forum item on whether being female was a BFOQ that justified ride$-$sharing company Safr's policy of hiring only women for its driver job, the class:

Group of answer choices

generally agreed that being female was a BFOQ for the driver job, as justified by the compelling societal interest in the safety of women passengers.

expressed a majority opinion that being female was not a BFOQ for the job.

was overwhelmingly $($more than $90\%)$ in favor of the BFOQ justifying hiring only females for the driver job, primarily as a way to boost women's prospects in a male$-$dominated field.

was evenly split $($close to $50-50)$ on whether being female was a BFOQ for the driver job, because of disagreement on what the "essential functions" of the driver job were.

was overwhelmingly $($over $95\%)$ against the BFOQ justifying hiring only females for the driver job, due to the difficulty of legally distinguishing between men, women, and other genders.