Discriminatory Experiences of Women Police. A Comparison of Officers Serving in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

Brown, Jennifer

doi:10.1006/ijsl.2000.0119

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“…The results of our research were consistent with research in the UK and the US on organizational culture and cross-cultural perception and cooperation in the police (Balkin, 1988;Brown, 2000;Pogrebin et al, 2000). In addition, there are several main sociological theories on in-group versus out-group behaviour that support these findings (Byrne, 1971;Kanter, 1977;Pettigrew, 1979;Schneider, 1987).…”

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Cross-cultural perception and power dynamics across changing organizational and national contexts: Curaçao and the Netherlands

Heijes

2010

Human Relations

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In this article we study the role of power and power differences in cross-cultural perception. We do so by way of exploratory case studies in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the police in the Netherlands and Curaçao. We demonstrate how crosscultural perception between two specific ethnic groups, European Dutch and African Curaçaoans, changes depending on the amount of power imbalance in the various organizational and national contexts. With this article, we follow the call for research on the impact of power dynamics on cross-cultural perception, an approach that goes beyond the traditional, dimensional approach that is prevalent in organization literature.

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Cross-cultural perception and power dynamics across changing organizational and national contexts: Curaçao and the Netherlands

Heijes

2010

Human Relations

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“…Police organizations are historically male, and, despite various efforts to increase representation of women in the profession, female participation in policing organizations remains limited (Brown, , , ; Dene, ; Heidensohn, ; Reaves, ). The occupation is characterized as hyper‐masculine and is associated with aggressive behaviour, physical strength and solidarity (Crank, ; Garcia, ; Schuck, ).…”

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Is it ‘just hair’ or is it ‘everything’? Embodiment and gender repression in policing

Kringen

Novich

2017

Gender Work & Organization

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Police department policies often require women to engage in identificatory displays inconsistent with sex category expectations. Compliance, while potentially increasing acceptance within policing, may reflect a loss of agency in aesthetic choices that limits their ability to construct gender in both the professional and personal spheres. Some women may comply without experiencing negative consequences, while others may exhibit tacit or resistant compliance reflecting their loss of agency. Women's differential reactions in response to these policies may help explain how some women become the embodiment of mythic visions associated with the profession. Through greater acceptance related to this adaptation, these women may reinforce the hostile environment experienced by other women within policing thereby propagating the status quo. In‐depth interviews with female officers and background investigators illustrate the impact of one such policy, a restrictive haircut requirement for female recruits. The results reveal that women are split in their reactions to the policy; some women comply willingly and choose to become the embodiment of the symbolic vision of policing. Others struggle with compliance as the loss of agency impacts their embodied selves through silencing their bodies.

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“…Discrimination, based on any group membership such as race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation, involves harmful actions towards specific group members because of their group membership (Brown, 2017). Although previous research has shown discrimination to be more common among minority status group children compared to majority status group children (e.g., Verkuyten, 2002;Verkuyten & Thijs, 2002), pervasive discrimination may be part of the social life of majority status group members too (Coker et al, 2009).…”

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Youth in Superdiverse Societies

Titzmann¹,

Jugert²

2019

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Discriminatory Experiences of Women Police. A Comparison of Officers Serving in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

Cited by 27 publications

References 24 publications

Cross-cultural perception and power dynamics across changing organizational and national contexts: Curaçao and the Netherlands

Cross-cultural perception and power dynamics across changing organizational and national contexts: Curaçao and the Netherlands

Is it ‘just hair’ or is it ‘everything’? Embodiment and gender repression in policing

Youth in Superdiverse Societies

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