‘Gender parity in torture’: Twitter unimpressed as Maddow celebrates CIA’s all-female leadership https://www.rt.com/usa/448210-maddow-cia-female-leadership/ women running military companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_CEOs_of_Fortune_500_companies https://www.rt.com/usa/448084-women-military-industrial-complex/ ... Politico celebrated this “watershed” moment on Wednesday, announcing that as of January 1, the CEOs of four of the nation’s top five defense contractors – Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and Boeing’s defense wing – are now women. The latest appointment was of Kathy Warden as CEO and president of Northrop Grumman. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/02/how-women-took-over-the-military-i... ... “To me, it’s a national security issue: We need every mind, every person engaged — male, female, every race, every level of experience,” said Lynn Dugle, a former vice president at Raytheon who is now CEO of Engility, an engineering and IT services firm that did more than $750 million of business with defense and intelligence agencies last year. “In the long term, we need to make sure talent wins." ... Andrea Thompson climbed the rungs as an Army officer before she was tapped by President Donald Trump to be undersecretary of State for arms control and international security affairs, the top diplomat who reviews billions in U.S. arms sales and is responsible for implementing and negotiating international weapons agreements. ... Lisa Gordon-Hagerty is the first woman to run the National Nuclear Security Administration, the arm of the Department of Energy that builds and maintains the nation’s nuclear weapons.