The Four Federal 

 Science Granting 

 Agencies Made 

 Efforts to Ensure 

 Compliance, but 

 Three Have Not 

 Conducted Required 

 Monitoring 



The four federal science agencies have made efforts to ensure that federal 

 grant recipients comply with Title IX in the sciences by performing several 

 comphance activities, such as investigating complaints and providing 

 technical assistance, but most have not monitored grantees as required by 

 the law. Agency officials reported that Energy, NASA, and NSF refer 

 complaints involving educational institutions to Education and those 

 involving employment to EEOC, where they are investigated. Because 

 grantees are not required to report on complaints filed with them, the 

 agencies could not determine whether grantees have investigated Title IX 

 sex discrimination complaints they have received. To encourage 

 comphance with Title IX, federal agencies have provided grantees 

 technical assistance and also require an assurance statement from every 

 grantee that it will not discriminate. However, only Education has 

 monitored its grantees by conducting periodic compliance reviews— an 

 agency-initiated assessment of grantees to determine if they are complying 

 with the law. The lack of grantee monitoring was, in part, because 

 agencies have not effectively coordinated the implementation of 

 comphance reviews and, according to agency officials, a shortage of 

 resources to conduct the reviews. 



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GAO-04-639 Gender Issues 



