article_snippet: Labour's Hazel Blears, who sits on the ISC, said yesterday that recruiting a greater number of women would make the security services better at women job.
article_snippet: Labour MPs Hazel Blears said more women spies were needed .
article_snippet: Hazel Blears said the need for MI6 officers to be able to deploy abroad – sometimes at short notice
article_snippet: Hazel Blears also revealed that the BBC TV drama Spooks had made it harder for MI5 to recruit women .
article_snippet: Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who conducted a similar investigation into women in the CIA, said improving diversity would help in the response to threats to national security.
article_snippet: She said: 'As Ms Blears rightly says 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. '
highlights_snippet: Parliamentary committee says more women spies needed to keep UK safe .
  
highlights_snippet: Claims lack of female agents harming MI5 and MI6's ability to tackle terror .
  