As in most other proffesions women have been short changed in the intelligence field but it is a tawdy business,usually an off shoot of the male-ego-fuelled aggression and imperialism. Nowadays the global intelligence establishment remains the hand maiden of the military-industrial complexs.They drain the life blood of every major nation and many lesser ones.The mission impossible for women, would do better, to work on eliminating global conflicts @ the conditions that generate them. Rosie White is a lecturer in English at Northumbia Uni @ her book on subject is "Violent Femmes:Women Spies in Popular Culture" (2008)