var app = angular.module('app', ['ngTouch', 'ui.grid']);

app.controller('MainCtrl', ['$scope', 'uiGridConstants', function ($scope, uiGridConstants) {

  $scope.gridOptions = {
    columnDefs: [
      { name: 'name' ,
        suppressRemoveSort: true,
        sort: {
          direction: uiGridConstants.ASC,
          priority: 0
        }
      },
      { name: 'gender', 
        suppressRemoveSort: true,
        sort: {
          direction: uiGridConstants.ASC,
          priority: 1
        }
      },
      { name: 'company',
        suppressRemoveSort: true,
        sort: {
          direction: uiGridConstants.ASC,
          priority: 2
        }
      },
    ],
    enableSorting: true,
    
    onRegisterApi: function( gridApi ) {
      $scope.gridApi = gridApi;
      $scope.gridApi.core.on.sortChanged( $scope, function( grid, sortColumns ) {
        var printColumn = function(column) {
          console.log("Column " + column.name + ": sort=" + JSON.stringify(column.sort) + ", colDef.sort=" + JSON.stringify(column.colDef.sort));
        }
        var printColumns = function(columns) {
          columns.forEach(function(column) {
                printColumn(column);
          });
        }
        
        console.log("==================================");
        printColumns(sortColumns);
      });
    }
  };
  
  $scope.gridOptions.data = [
    {name: "nameA", gender: "genderA", company: "companyA"},
    {name: "nameB", gender: "genderA", company: "companyB"},
    {name: "nameC", gender: "genderA", company: "companyA"},
    {name: "nameA", gender: "genderB", company: "companyB"},
    {name: "nameB", gender: "genderB", company: "companyA"},
    {name: "nameC", gender: "genderB", company: "companyB"},
  ];
  
}]);
.grid {
  width: 500px;
  height: 250px;
}
<!doctype html>
<html ng-app="app">
  <head>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.26/angular.js"></script>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.26/angular-touch.js"></script>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.26/angular-animate.js"></script>
    <script src="http://ui-grid.info/docs/grunt-scripts/csv.js"></script>
    <script src="http://ui-grid.info/docs/grunt-scripts/pdfmake.js"></script>
    <script src="http://ui-grid.info/docs/grunt-scripts/vfs_fonts.js"></script>
    <script src="http://ui-grid.info/release/ui-grid-unstable.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ui-grid.info/release/ui-grid-unstable.css" type="text/css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="main.css" type="text/css">
  </head>
  <body>

<div ng-controller="MainCtrl">
  <div id="grid1" ui-grid="gridOptions" class="grid"></div>
</div>


    <script src="app.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>