Martina Uková

The diploma thesis Women in CIA: From Typists to Trailblazers? analyzes the role of women in the CIA. The development of female workforce within the CIA is tracked in connection to key reforms of the American intelligence community and demands of liberal feminism. The thesis mainly deals with the change of the role of women in the US society and studies areas of intelligence work where gender discrimination against women took place. Although in the past years the number of women on different positions in the CIA proportionally increased, the Agency top management faces a relative scarcity of women. This lower representation of women in the CIA's leadership can diminish effective accomplishment of the CIA's mission. Key Agency's report served for analysis of the transformation of the status of women in the CIA and also for indentifying concrete problems leading to scarcity of women in the CIA's leadership. The author also proposed some incentives for enhancing female representation in the Agency top management.

The diploma thesis Women in CIA: From Typists to Trailblazers? analyzes the role of women in the CIA. The development of female workforce within the CIA is tracked in connection to key reforms of the American intelligence community and demands of liberal feminism. The thesis mainly deals with the change of the role of women in the US society and studies areas of intelligence work where gender discrimination against women took place. Although in the past years the number of women on different positions in the CIA proportionally increased, the Agency top management faces a relative scarcity of women. This lower representation of women in the CIA's leadership can diminish effective accomplishment of the CIA's mission. Key Agency's report served for analysis of the transformation of the status of women in the CIA and also for indentifying concrete problems leading to scarcity of women in the CIA's leadership. The author also proposed some incentives for enhancing female representation in the Agency top management.

For generations, women have served as peace educators, both in their families and in their societies. They have proved instrumental in building bridges rather than walls. Why women matter? What roles women play in a conflict? What is the impact of conflict on women? Are the questions that are needed to be raised in order to successfully manage conflicts not only on African continent because gendered consequences of armed conflicts include also socioeconomic shifts, forced migration, and displacement and challenge health and educational system of the continent. This paper examines multiple roles of women in conflict. It deals with two aspects of role of women in conflicts: First part of the paper describes " Women as targets " thus the role of women that are victimized by conflict facing many evils such as rape, social exclusion or stigma to cite some of many. It is the role of women that is more visible during armed conflict. The second part, however, describes the " invisible " activity of women in conflict, women both as combatants and peacekeepers, thus " Women as actors ". The third part of the paper presents women's involvement in formal and informal peace process and describes cases of success of empowerment of women in post conflict reconstruction and peacebuilding. The last part of the paper presents several ideas of why more women should be active in peacebuilding processes and gives some recommendations for their further engagement.