article_snippet: But women's life experience and other qualities should not be overlooked, she said.
article_snippet: These include offering better career management, encouraging women to set up women own informal support networks and not limiting women options if women have children.
article_snippet: Women who have successfully been filling operational roles mustn't be sidelined after Women who have successfully been filling operational roles .
article_snippet: Women who have successfully been filling operational roles still have the first class skills that the Agencies helped Women who have successfully been filling operational roles to build, so these should be used," Blears said.
article_snippet: Diversity should be pursued -- not just on legal or ethical grounds, important as these are in these own right -- but because it will result in a better response to the range of threats that threaten national security," she said.