During the Senate debate on the nominee for Secretary of Education, Senator Wyman of Oregon called on the Federal Government to enforce title IX (famous for its application to college sports programs) in the sciences to correct the balance of men and women represented at increasing levels of authority in science and academia.
I don’t know anything about Title IX, so I went to the Web and found a “resource that gives the full text of Title IX”:http://www.dol.gov/oasam/regs/statutes/titleix.htm. I figure the only way to understand whether applying such a law actually fixes the core problem (or problems) is to understand the law.
