Add to ORKGThe roles of pioneering women in policing were largely restricted to the specialised care of female prisoners, and dealing with young offenders and victims of sexual assault (Brown & Heidensohn, 1996). Today, women are represented in a range of fields and areas of specialisation and comprise one-fifth of all sworn police officers in Australia (Australian Institute of Criminology, 2003)
Scholars have been critical of the gender biased nature of policing, and its effects on service deli...
The number of female police officers has increased rapidly in the last two decades. Since policing i...
In the most developed countries, the opinion prevailed that the police profession is only a professi...
W ith around 13.5 per cent of sworn police officers being female, Australian Police Services could n...
There has been much speculation over the last two decades about the extent to which women can and do...
2The present study provided a profile of women officers in the N.S.W. Police Service. In male domina...
Limited statistics make for difficulties in producing a clear picture of the impact of equal employm...
2In the last 30 years enormous advances have been made in women’s access to the benefits of a police...
This paper will discuss the status of women in police unions. It will examine why women in policing ...
Equal employment opportunity (EEO) has been relatively unsuccessful in creating a fully integrated p...
2Policing is one of the world’s most masculinised occupations. Policing grew (with few exceptions) f...
This paper examines the career paths of a cohort of police sworn in during 1991 in a number of juris...
The stated aim of the First Australasian Women Police Conference is to inform policy makers and poli...
There is an appearance that women are uninterested in applying for positions in specialist areas of ...
We detect four principal propositions in much of the literature on women in policing. First, women m...
Scholars have been critical of the gender biased nature of policing, and its effects on service deli...
The number of female police officers has increased rapidly in the last two decades. Since policing i...
In the most developed countries, the opinion prevailed that the police profession is only a professi...
W ith around 13.5 per cent of sworn police officers being female, Australian Police Services could n...
There has been much speculation over the last two decades about the extent to which women can and do...
2The present study provided a profile of women officers in the N.S.W. Police Service. In male domina...
Limited statistics make for difficulties in producing a clear picture of the impact of equal employm...
2In the last 30 years enormous advances have been made in women’s access to the benefits of a police...
This paper will discuss the status of women in police unions. It will examine why women in policing ...
Equal employment opportunity (EEO) has been relatively unsuccessful in creating a fully integrated p...
2Policing is one of the world’s most masculinised occupations. Policing grew (with few exceptions) f...
This paper examines the career paths of a cohort of police sworn in during 1991 in a number of juris...
The stated aim of the First Australasian Women Police Conference is to inform policy makers and poli...
There is an appearance that women are uninterested in applying for positions in specialist areas of ...
We detect four principal propositions in much of the literature on women in policing. First, women m...
Scholars have been critical of the gender biased nature of policing, and its effects on service deli...
The number of female police officers has increased rapidly in the last two decades. Since policing i...
In the most developed countries, the opinion prevailed that the police profession is only a professi...