Former FBI special agent Robyn Gritz said on Wednesday that male supervisors within the nation's top law enforcement agencies think women supervisors are weak.

Gritz was responding in part to a new report from the Department of Justice on gender bias in law enforcement.

"They think women are weak," Gritz said in an interview with Hill.TV's Krystal Ball on "Rising."

Gritz said she filed an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) complaint after she came across emails from two individuals in the bureau, in which she said they discussed ways they could bring Gritz down within the bureau.

She also said she was subjected to an Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) probe after she filed the EEO complaint with former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe Andrew George McCabeGraham: Comey to testify about FBI's Russia probe, Mueller declined invitation Barr criticizes DOJ in speech declaring all agency power 'is invested in the attorney general' GOP votes to authorize subpoenas, depositions in Obama-era probe MORE.

"I did talk to EEO and filed a formal complaint, that's how it starts off, and within five days, from when I look at the dates, Andrew McCabe authorized an OPR against me. He admitted in his signed, sworn statement that he knew I had filed or was filing an EEO," she said.

"For the next year and a half, they made my life and had me under OPR investigation for claims that...what they just throw at people when they don't have something against you."

The former agent's comments come after the DOJ's Inspector General released a report on Tuesday that said women account for only 16 percent of criminal investigative jobs within the department’s main investigative agencies and hold few executive leadership positions.

Gritz argued the FBI and DoJ should do more to promote gender diversity.

"You want to make sure that you have a diverse leadership," Gritz said.

"If there's hardly any women in leadership, you're given the perception that there is discrimination practices going on."

— Julia Manchester