Women on the Move
A Report on the Status of Women in Policing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20393696 |
|---|---|
| Authors | SUSAN E MARTIN (Police Foundation, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-40 |
| Publication date | 1989-10-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women & Criminal Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0897-4454 • E-ISSN: 1541-0323 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1300/j012v01n01_03 |
| OpenAlex | W1780980994 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Since the passage of the 1972 Amendments to the Civil Rights Act, many police departments have eliminated discriminatory personnel policies, but the impact of these changes is largely unexplored. This article examines evidence of change in the status of women in municipal police agencies in the past decade, based on the responses of 319 agencies serving populations over 50,000 to a mail survey. The data indicate that the proportion of women in large and medium- sized police departments has increased from 4.2 percent of sworn personnel in 1978 to 8.8 percent in 1986. The proportion of women supervisors also has increased during the same period. Currently women are accepted as recruits in proportion to their representation among the applicants, but they still constitute a small proportion (20 percent) of the applicant pool. Women now are assigned to field operations units (principally patrol) in proportion to their representation in policing. Affirmative action policies have had a major impact on the current entry rate and overall representation of women in policing although some changes have occurred across the board. The paper concludes with some policy recommendations for accelerating the slow pace of change in the status of women in policing
Affirmative action · Business · Criminology · Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Pace · Police department · Political science · Politics · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Gun Ownership and Violence Research · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology · Public Administration
Constrained Agency Theory and Leadership
Law Enforcement Officers’ Attitudes About Domestic Violence
Appropriate skill‐task matching or gender bias in deployment of male and female police officers
What Do College Students Think of Policewomen
Structure and Function
Thirty Years of Scholarship in the Women and Criminal Justice Journal
Feminist pedagogy in criminology
Shifting law enforcement executive demographics
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.23 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2026 (36) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |