Despite changes in both the nature of policing and the status of women, many men officers continue to believe that women cannot handle the job emotionally and, therefore, oppose their presence on patrol. Beyond the negative attitudes of individual men, is a work culture that is characterized by drinking, crude jokes, and sexism, and which demands that women who enter it "subsume 'male characteristics' to achieve even a limited social acceptability" (Young 1991:193).
Women officers also encounter interactional barriers and gendered images that marginalize and exclude them. They are treated as outsiders, sexual objects, targets of men's resentment, and competitors who threaten to change the rules of officer interaction. Women's social isolation
Women officers also encounter interactional barriers and gendered images that marginalize and exclude them. They are treated as outsiders, sexual objects, targets of men's resentment, and competitors who threaten to change the rules of officer interaction. Women's social isolation