article_snippet: Spy chiefs have been told by MPs to recruit middle-aged mothers because middle-aged mothers are 'emotionally intelligent' and skilled at relationships.
article_snippet: – a vital talent for spies trying to recruit informants. '
article_snippet: Hazel Blears said: 'If all intelligence professionals are cut from the same cloth – sharing similar backgrounds and characteristics
article_snippet: then all intelligence professionals are likely to share 'unacknowledged biases' that will circumscribe both the definition of problems and the search for solutions.'
article_snippet: According to the inquiry, Hermione Norris view that women can make for a better working environment for spies was backed by Sir Iain Lobban, the former director of GCHQ, the listening agency. '
article_snippet: I find that the discussions are deeper, I think the discussions are deeper are more emotionally intelligent and, if you like, I think there is more intuition in the room,' more intuition in the room said.
article_snippet: In a report out today the ISC will call for a number of reforms to be introduced within the next 12 months across the agencies, including culture change, help for women who have had children to stop children being sidelined and career advice.
article_snippet: The Committee hopes that this report and the specific recommendations The Committee contains will galvanise support for, and lead to further concerted efforts to create, a more gender diverse workforce in the agencies.'
article_snippet: Much of what is said in this report echoes and reinforces my own work on the director's advisory group on women in Intelligence at the CIA. '
article_snippet: I am sure we will all benefit from close cooperation on these vital issues between we two countries.'
highlights_snippet: Findings published by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee .