{"id":246398,"date":"2016-05-28T03:03:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T03:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/spy-agencies-chase-female-recruits-as-gchq-announces-girls-only-day\/"},"modified":"2016-05-28T03:03:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T03:03:46","slug":"spy-agencies-chase-female-recruits-as-gchq-announces-girls-only-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/spy-agencies-chase-female-recruits-as-gchq-announces-girls-only-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Spy agencies chase female recruits as GCHQ announces \u2018Girls Only Day\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2016.05\/thumbnail\/574827f3c4618866238b457d.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        UK spy agencies are keen to recruit middle-class mums and older women, it has emerged. Meanwhile, electronic snooping agency GCHQ has announced a series of girls-only activity days.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"71\">\n<p>MI5, MI6 and GCHQ are placing a higher value on their new recruits\u2019 \u201c<em>emotional intelligence,<\/em>\u201d of the kind mid-career women can bring to the role, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>A new study claims Britain\u2019s security apparatus would be vastly improved if recruiters were to target \u201c<em>high emotional intelligence, rather than focusing on standard qualifications.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/juVlSSHMKbs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Agencies are now keen to show life as a spy is compatible with raising a family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Half the population are women so this is a recognition that the intelligence services must respond to the population within which they operate,<\/em>\u201d MP Gisela Stuart, who sits on the Intelligence and Security Committee, commented on the report to the Daily Telegraph on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes days after electronic snooping agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) declared it would be holding a series of lecture and activity days for British girls aged 14 to 15.<\/p>\n<p>The centerpiece of the scheme is the CyberFirst Girls Competition, due to be held in summer 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The spy agency said events will be \u201c<em>hosted by UK universities and designed to inspire and encourage young girls to consider further study and a career in Cyber.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ymuk8qJFMFc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The stated aim of the initiative is to recruit young women into the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>As part of the National Cyber Security Programme, this is a concerted nationwide effort to inspire a new generation of young women into a career in Cyber,<\/em>\u201d CESG, a sub-section of GCHQ, said.<\/p>\n<p>Intelligence agencies have previously advertised on the parenting web forum Mumsnet in an effort to access new cohorts of women contemplating becoming spooks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/344589-spy-women-recruits-gchq\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK spy agencies are keen to recruit middle-class mums and older women, it has emerged. Meanwhile, electronic snooping agency GCHQ has announced a series of girls-only activity days. MI5, MI6 and GCHQ are placing a higher value on their new recruits\u2019 \u201cemotional intelligence,\u201d of the kind mid-career women can bring to the role, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-246398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}