Organizational Positions on Title IX Conflicting Perspectives on Sex Discrimination in Education
The comments submitted by organizations and individuals to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare on the proposed regulations to implement Title IX of the Education A mendments of 1972 provide a unique opportunity to determine the positions of a wide variety of groups on issues relating to sex discrimination in education. A content analysis was made of the comments submitted by 50 groups and 74 college and university administrators on six key issues. The extent to which groups supported or opposed the recommendations made by the Women's Equity Action League and Representative Bella Abzug was determined. The results of this analysis demonstrate that groups representing women, teachers, students, and national civil rights commissions have a substantially different view from public school and higher education administrators; athletic groups; and elementary, secondary, and higher education groups on what constitutes sex discrimination in education and what procedures the federal government should require to eliminate it.