Gender+Roles+Proposal

1) What makes this subject/topic interesting to you? 2) What are the complexities of your chosen topic? 3) How is your topic relevant in today's world?

Women in law enforcement always drew a interest to me since a young age. It started around the age of seven which was about ten years ago. My aunt being a correction officer and my mom just becoming a police officer to the Perth Amboy Police Department i wonder how they fit in. This was more then just about women in law enforcement it was personal it was my mother in law enforcement. . Hearing many stories from a young age about how being 1 of 3 female officers on the force is difficult. Such as having to arrest an retrain a 6'4" 280lb. man as a 5'7" office with about 165lbs. of meat on her seem difficult to me. it was not to the age of 13 that i put to and to together. i started to wonder how the other women felt even other kids who had moms as police officers. The thought of your mom coming home that night or day runs through your mind on a daily. So i knew the women on the force wondered if they would make it home to there families and loved ones.

There are many things going on with 'women in law enforcement' in today's era, it all started in the 1780's when Rose Fortune who was born into slavery escaped an went to Canada an appointed her self the first "Policewomen". although it didn't make a big spike in the interest of men in the community till 1887, when Phoebe Wilson Couzins became the first U.S. Marshal. women had it ruff in the Department of law as of this time. Men didn't want women on the force because their seen as 'weak' in the eyes of most men. some thought having a female partner was like baby sitting while on the job. . women are always over looked in a so called mans environment, like i said before they are seen as weak in most men eyes. There live are on the line more often then a males life, people think they can take advantage of a female officer. Women officers have some of the biggest hearts an rarely back down, they do there jobs to prove that women are as strong as men. i was told that when women are in the police academe they must do the same task as men, but yet they are not recognized for being strong an loyal but just a other 'female officer'.

Women officer are starting to increase in population little by little an with in the next 8-10 years they might make up about 12-15% of our police forces. women stride for great thing and this being one of them, now a days you will see a lot more women in a masculine environment. They will not be over looked forever an now is the time to realize the women putting there lives on the line for us everyday from House wives to moms and even grandmothers.