GENDER DIFFERENCES

What are some gender differences in policing?

(In comparison to men )

There are different ways that women and men police. Women are found to be more people oriented, sociable, and emotional sensitive than men. Women are thought to prefer a more democratic and participative style of leadership and to influence the workplace climate, such that empathy, fairness, and equity become prominent (Schuck, 2014). These characteristics lower complaints and reduce negative and aggressive behaviors from civilians. Women officers focus on maintaining good relationships with citizens and the police, whereas male officers typically use cognitive behavioral strategies.

Women are more likely than male officers to have community policing based skills such as; problem solving, contemplation, and powerful communication skills. According to (Schuck, 2014), because women are more communicative, they have lower arrest rates than men. Female officers are also known to have important skills that deals with diffusing aggressive situations. Thats why women are more reconigize for thier accomplishments than men. In the field of policing, the core debate regarding these differences tends to focus on two topics: women’s capacity and predisposition toward using physicality and coercion and the woman’s role in the family as the primary caretaker of her children (Schuch,2014)

There are differences in gender on how men and women police treats citizens. We may expect that female officers are the most likely to provide comfort to female citizens–while male officers and male citizens may rely on a “shared manhood” to avoid emotional displays, female officers and female citizens may similarly rely on a “shared womanhood” to justify displays of emotion (Delong, 2015 ;Martin, 1999). Men tends to be gender bias with the way they handle women and men counterparts, but women are usually gender neutral when handling counterparts.

Over the years, the salary wage gap has diverged between women and men, but they are still some wage differences in gender. In 2012 a research was done by the Institute for Women’s Policy , the research indicated that, While the report indicated that women's salaries were almost 18 percent lower than men's salaries overall, there was no pay difference between male and female police and sheriff's patrol officers (McDonnell, 2015)