"Pentagon to analyze grantsmaking process for gender bias"

"Last year, three members of the U.S. House of Representatives asked a congressional watchdog agency to analyze the issue at the six biggest federal research agencies. But the Government Accountability Office found that three of them—DOD, NASA, and the Department of Energy (DOE)—don’t have the information needed to answer that question. Last week, DOD’s head of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics, Frank Kendall, wrote to the legislators saying that the department “has found no legal hurdles that would prevent the Department from collecting this data.”"
http://news.sciencemag.org/funding/2015/05/pentagon-analyze-grantsmaking-process-gender-bias

Would we be asking these questions or applying these pressures without these increasing numbers of women in government?