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The Honorable Ednund S. Muskie
United States Senate
]Dear Senator Huskie:
Your October 9. 1974, letter requested that, in reviewing the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we consider the issues 11*
raised by Ms. Priscilla Doel of Fairfield, Maine, in a series of
letters to your office. Ms. Doel expressed dissatisfaction with
the way the Commission's Boston district office processed her
charge. She specifically requested an inquiry into the Boston
office's (1) resolution of charges (particularly those filed by
Maine women), (2) processing times for charges by Maine women com-
pared to other charges, (3) procedures for resclving women's charges,
2e-nd (4) relationship to the Maine Human Rights Commission.p z
Our October 25, 1974, letter to you stated that, while we
could not judge the merits of Ms. Doel's complaint, we would
consider the information provided by her letters in ourtoverali
assessment of Commission policies and practices.]
Upcn visiting the Boston office and inquiring into the four
matters cited by Ms. Doel, we found no pattern of differences in
the processing and resolution of sex discrimination charges filed
by Maine women compared to the processing and resolutions of all
other types of charges. However, delays usually occurred in the
early stages of the processing of many sex discrimination charges
filed by women against institutions of higher education because
the Boston office sent such charges to Commission headquarters for
a decision. Charges were sent to headquarters when the issues they
raised had no Commission precedent or the Commissioners had decided
to expand upon or change a precedent. The decisions were then made
by the entire'Commission.
The Boston office's operations have been hampered by (1) a
high personnel vacancy rate and (2) a failure to effectively control
the initial administrative disposition of charges and monitor charge
progress. These problems are especially serious in view of the
office's large and growing backlog of unresolved charges.
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