Appendix I: Objectives, Scope, and 

 Methodology 



Because of increased interest about women's access to mathematics, 

 engineering, aind science, which receive billions of dollars in federal 

 assistance, you asked us to determine what is being done to ensure 

 compliance with Title IX in regard to mathematics, engineering, and 

 science. This report addresses: 1) how do the Department of Education 

 (Education), the Department of Energy (Energy), the National Aeronautics 

 and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Science Foundation 

 (NSF) ensure that federal grant recipient institutions comply with Title IX 

 in mathematics, engineering, and science; 2) what do data show about 

 women's participation in these fields; and 3) what promising practices 

 exist to promote their participation? 



We reviewed the legislation and regulations to identify all areas of 

 compliance relevant to each federal agency. We interviewed officials at 

 Education, Energy, NASA, and NSF and gathered docmnentation to 

 identify agency activities to ensure compliance with Title IX. We analyzed 

 data from the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at Education and the Equal 

 Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agencies where most 

 sex discrimination complaints are filed. Given its role as coordinating 

 agency of Title IX compUance, we also gathered data and interviewed 

 officials at the Department of Justice (Justice). 



We chose to visit research universities and national laboratories because 

 by visiting those institutions we were able to interview future and 

 practicing scientists working in a wide variety of areas. During this phase 

 of the review, we visited seven research imiversities where we interviewed 

 grant recipients, students and faculty. We also visited six national 

 laboratories where we talked with administrators and scientists. Research 

 imiversities were selected for site visits because they received grants from 

 at least three of the four agencies we reviewed and were near at least one 

 national laboratory and another reseairch university that also met ovu: 

 criteria. Those selected were: 



Clemson University, 



Columbia University, 



Duke University, 



Stanford University, 



State University of New York at Stony Brook, 



University of California, Berkeley, and 



Urviversity of South Carolina. 



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