Opinion ID: 5553
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Heading Rank: 2

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Text: Dr. Chance argues that her Title IX claim should have been analyzed under the disparate impact standard of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Application of this standard would require Dr. Chance to show that certain facially neutral employment standards operated more harshly on one group than another in order to establish a prima facie case of sexual discrimination. Johnson v. Uncle Ben's, Inc., 965 F.2d 1363, 1367 2 20 U.S.C. § 1681. 3 29 U.S.C. § 206(d)(1). 4 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000d - 2000d-7. 2 (5th Cir. 1992), petition for cert. filed, (U.S. Sept. 29, 1992) (No. 92-737); Carpenter v. Stephen F. Austin State University, 706 F.2d 608, 621 (5th Cir. 1983). Dr. Chance claims that the subjective determination of compensation and promotion within her department at Rice is a process controlled by males and has the effect of denying her equal compensation and promotions compared to her male colleagues. The district court specifically found that no statistically significant salary differential existed between tenured or tenure track men and women in the Humanities Division at Rice (which includes Dr. Chance's department) during 1987-88 and 1989-90, that the Humanities Division actually pays tenured or tenure track women more than tenured or tenure track men, and that all faculty members within the same rank are treated equally in terms of assignment and compensation. The court also found that the failure to grant Dr. Chance the promotions she sought (two endowed chairs within the English Department), and any differential in pay among professors were in no way related to sexual discrimination. These findings are supported by the evidence and are not clearly erroneous. In light of the court's factual findings, we conclude that Dr. Chance could not establish a prima facie case of disparate impact sexual discrimination, as that standard is applied to her Title IX claim, and we therefore need not decide whether her claim should have been analyzed under that standard.