{"id":3037,"date":"2001-07-02T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2001-07-02T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2021-02-19T16:43:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T21:43:29","slug":"cia-takes-crack-at-glass-ceiling-for-spies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/07\/02\/cia-takes-crack-at-glass-ceiling-for-spies\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;CIA Takes Crack at Glass Ceiling for Spies&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>In a Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010713095141\/http:\/\/dailynews.yahoo.com\/h\/nm\/20010702\/lf\/spying_dc_1.html\">article<\/a> about the status of women in the CIA, Tabassum Zakaria touches upon CIA polygraph policy, including alleged bias against women, and notes that a woman heads the CIA polygraph unit. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Lawyers who handle lawsuits by female spies say while steps have been taken toward equality, there is still some distance to go. One such lawyer, Janine Brookner, a former CIA station chief who sued the agency and won a $400,000 settlement and a lifelong annuity, said the glass ceiling remains intact.<\/p><p>Single female spies working overseas are questioned more extensively about their sexual relationships during required periodic lie detector tests, Brookner said, &#8220;because there&#8217;s always the suspicion they&#8217;re sleeping with a foreigner.&#8221;<\/p><p>She said women are seen as more vulnerable to compromise due to a sexual encounter than are men.<\/p><p>CIA spokesman Bill Harlow disagreed. &#8220;The woman who heads up our polygraph division I&#8217;m sure would not put up with any unfair treatment of women,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Reuters article about the status of women in the CIA, Tabassum Zakaria touches upon CIA polygraph policy, including alleged bias against women, and notes that a woman heads the CIA polygraph unit. Excerpt: Lawyers who handle lawsuits by female spies say while steps have been taken toward equality, there is still some distance &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[66,70,340],"class_list":{"0":"post-3037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-cia","8":"tag-polygraph-screening","9":"tag-sexual-bias","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3038,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions\/3038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}