Three members of the US House of Representatives have called on the heads of NASA and the Departments of Energy and Defense to begin tracking their grantees’ gender in order to determine whether sex discrimination is occurring in the distribution of federal research funding. The three other largest grant-making agencies—the National Institutes of Health, NSF, and the Department of Agriculture—already routinely collect such data. Three members of the US House of Representatives have called on the heads of NASA and the Departments of Energy and Defense to begin tracking their grantees’ gender in order to determine whether sex discrimination is occurring in the distribution of federal research funding. The three other largest grant-making agencies—the National Institutes of Health, NSF, and the Department of Agriculture—already routinely collect such data.
Pointing to the results of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report they commissioned, Representatives Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), and...
