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As in all wars, women are imperative in overcoming the enemy and this is also true of the U.S. Civil War in which hundreds of women were successful undercover agents. Gender expectations that women …

As we store our private information, intellectual property, wealth and secrets in cyberspace, it becomes crucial to recognise the bad actors who are continually developing new covert toolkits to steal …

Mona Louise Parsons, a young Canadian woman from Nova Scotia was imprisoned by the Nazis in WW 2 for four years. Before the war, she was an independent woman living in New York City and worked as a …

Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek, also known as Christina Granville was originally from an old aristocratic family in Poland which had a history of resistance. After being chosen for the British …

Serious national security threats including violent extremism and foreign interference increased substantially in Canada in 2020. This included foreign espionage during the COVID pandemic. In fact, …

Red Widow by Alma Katsu, a former female Operations Officer, is receiving high praise from retired senior CIA Cipher Brief expert, Alison Bouwmeester.for its accurate depiction of women in espionage. …

In Judy Batalion’s book, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos she provides in-depth details into Jewish women resisters in Poland in WW 2. …

Born in what is now Arizona/New Mexico in the 1840’s Lozen was a ‘shield for her people’. Not interested in the traditional roles of Apache women, she became a warrior, a strategist …

“If you can see it, you can be it.” the National Portrait Gallery in London, has partnered with Chanel Culture Fund in a three-year project called, Reframing Narratives: Women in …

In the county of East Sussex, town of Bexhill, was a unique college from 1932 to 1939 — a Nazi’s girls’ school called the Augusta Victoria College (AVC) for girls and women ages …

Noor Inayat Khan was a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent in France during WW 2. Due to her fluency in French, unflappable character and exceptional talent with wireless transmitting she was the …

At 25 years old, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, was already a highly decorated Soviet sniper and lieutenant from the  Red Army’s 25th Chapayev Rifle Division having 309 kills under her belt, including 36 …

Virginia Hall was a tenacious, strategic and adventuresome WW 2 agent. Being American born, wealthy and having studied languages in Europe, she freely travelled during the early war years doing …

Re-examining western cultural history is imperative to revisioning ourselves today. For instance, new archeological techniques are challenging long held beliefs about biological gender roles in …

Soon to be released in English, Amazons of the Mossad, reviews new intelligence information including the identities of some women agents. Although the book sticks to an old narrative about women …

Women spies for King Charles 1 knew how to letter-lock their communications so that these messages passed to him in secret. These expertly crafted locked letters would be damaged if opened making …

In 1925, Missouri-born Josephine Baker, left for Paris travelling with an all-Black troupe as an erotic dancer. She soon came to love France with the freedoms it afforded her and became famous in an …

Eighty years post WW 2 and 70 years since Canada first passed the equal pay legislation, why does the power ratio of men to women still exist in the top levels of the modern day …

Invisible Women is celebrating International Women’s Day by releasing Episode 5 a few days early (on March 8) to coincide with IWD. It’s about the power of Sisterhood and women leading, supporting and …

Jessie Jordon, a Scottish citizen, began spying for the Abwehr, the German military intelligence after marrying and living in Germany for a number of years. Upon her husband’s death in WW 2, she …