Women In Law Enforcement

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Women and Minority in Law Enforcement In 1905, Lola Balwin was the first female to join the Portland Police Bureau which led the way for females in the law enforcement agencies. Women were underrepresented in policing and not able to achieve equality with the men they worked with, the positions were not equal and either way the pay. It took seventy years to finally get an equal opportunity for women and minorities. Women were hired as research studies which were conducted in the 1970’s, females in the police force was basically an experiment seeing if females could really do the job as well as men. Which came to be very true and women were very successful in different areas to were men weren’t. The female officers have come a long way
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