Today, women make up just 22% of special agents, and of the 56 FBI field offices, only seven are run by women.
J. Edgar Hoover, who served as FBI director for nearly half a century, said women could not be agents. Within weeks of his death, that changed, and the first female special agents of the modern era started their training.
Susan Roley Malone is a legend at the FBI Academy. Fifty years ago, she made history as one of the first two women to graduate as a special agent. To celebrate the anniversary, the FBI brought together current and former female agents. "I think in some quarters it was an experiment and, you know, would it fail? I certainly wasn't going to fail. If they had to kill me, I wouldn't quit," she said.
"I think some of the challenges, even from some of my colleagues in our class, a couple of them had a difficult time being in a class with two women agents that carried the same badge and did the same job they were going to do," she said.
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