Title IX
Title IX prohibits sex discrimination in the following areas:
Recruitment, Admissions, and Counseling
- recruitment materials, admission forms, class or career selection materials, admission of students
Financial Assistance
- procedures and practices for awarding financial assistance to students
Athletics
- requires nondiscriminatory participation based on student interests and abilities
- equal benefits and opportunities (equipment, supplies, training facilities, recruitment, support services, etc.)
- financial assistance
Sex-Based Discrimination, Harassment, Intimidation, and Bullying
- unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature
- sexual violence
- gender-based harassment
Pregnant & Parenting Students
- different treatment on the basis of sex based on parental, family, or marital status
- exclusion in educational programs, or activities based on pregnancy, childbirth, false pregnancy
Discipline
- imposing consequences based on sex, gender identity, failing to conform to stereotypical binary expectaions, etc.
Schools, Classes, and Extracurricular Activities
- providing education programs or activities separately on the basis of sex
- requiring or refusing participation by students on the basis of sex
NOTE: There are exceptions: 1. contact sports in physical education2. classes or portions of classes…that deal primarily with human sexuality3. nonvocational classes and extracurricular activities within a coeducational…school if certain criteria are met.
Employment
- employment, recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, grants of leave, benefits
- consideration or selection for employment
- based on pregnancy or marital status
Retaliation
- against anyone who has reported, investigated, filed a complaint under Title IX
For more information refer to any of the following websites:
Office for Civil Rights (Main Page)
Title IX Resource Guide
Title IX Guidance-January 1, 2001
US Department of Education Title IX