Half of the total workforce at CIA are women, according to agency sources.
Today, nearly half the CIA’s workforce is composed of women, and female officers make up about half of CIA Director John O. Brennan’s leadership team—including the number two and number three positions at the Agency, according to CIA sources.
Moreover, two of the four CIA directorates—the Directorate of Intelligence and the Directorate of Support—are led by women. In addition female officers currently fill roughly a third of the Agency’s senior intelligence service, whereas they held just ten percent of these posts in 1992.
During the hunt for Osama Bin Laden – the CIA analysts who became somewhat obsessed with Al-Qaeda and its leader were all women – their names were Susan Hasler, who edited the daily brief for the president and Cindy Storer who actually tracked Osama Bin Laden.
Collectively they were known as the “Sisterhood”.
See also related article: Mysterious female spy who helped SEAL’s target Bin Laden in Pakistan http://www.examiner.com/article/mysterious-female-spy-helped-seal-s-target-osama-bin-laden-pakistan
See also video: Real operatives of “Zero Dark Thirty” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLxtE02vZXw
Question: Do women make better spies?
The answer is in many cases they do, especially at the CIA which recently honored the role of women within the organization (see: Special report: Typists and trailblazers – the role of women in CIA http://www.foia.cia.gov/typisttrailblazer/).