Janet Kavandi pushed back some spaceflight barriers but says more work is needed.
In her ISS role, Kavandi sought to address vast gender disparity in extravehicular activities , also known as, as the extravehicular mobility unit suit used by NASA was developed in the 1970s when astronauts were all male; it is therefore sized for larger bodies. Helping Kavandi in this effort were other NASA astronauts-turned-leaders like Nancy Curry Greg and Marsha Ivins.
At first, Kavandi said, females were not brought into the EMU conversation at all due to the design issue, so that was something she and others worked to challenge:"The argument was, well, they're not strong enough anyway, so why are we bothering? That really eliminated opportunity for a lot of females who absolutely were strong, and who spent many hours in the gym and were quite capable.
For perspective, so far only a single EVA — in October 2019, by Jessica Meir and Christina Koch — has been an, and even that spacewalk was delayed a few months due to a part sizing issue in orbit. Also in 2019, NASA statistics showed only 15 women had ever done an EVA in the five decades since spacewalks began in 1965, compared with more than 200 men. Fortunately, that disparity may start to close soon. The new NASA-funded generation of spacesuits for ISS and
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