A study was undertaken, in compliance with the Women's Educational Equity Act of 1974 (part of the Education Amendments in 1974) to identify the extent and kinds of sex discrimination in access to postsecondary education. The analysis of the data includes participation rates of women in various forms of postsecondary education, the impact of personal and background variables on access to education, institutional practices that may have discriminatory effects (especially in financial aid), and the special problems of adult women returning to postsecondary education. Recommendations are made for programmatic, research, and legislative efforts to ensure more equal educational access. The data sources used were: (1) research and theoretical literature; (2) statistical reports on high school and college youth; and (3) special exploratory studies. Volume l contains the narrated report of the study; Volume 2 contains annotations. (MSE)