The acceptance and statutory recognition of women as police officers in England and Wales with special reference to the Metropolitan Police, 1914-1931
~The Acceptance and Statutory Recognition of Women as Police Officers in England and Wales, with special reference to the Metropolitan Police, 1914-1931. ~ This study traces the history of women police up to the point where their employment received statutory recognition through the issuing of Regulations. The tactics of the various pressure groups are described, and the arguments for and against women police, as they were presented to the various Departmental Committees of Inquiry, and a Royal Commission, are discussed and analysed. During the First World War two factors contributed to the growing public interest in the idea of women police: the setting up of large army camps which attracted young women who appeared to be in moral danger, and the employment of large numbers of women and girls in munitions factories who required supervision for reasons of security as well as personal safety. Thus the first policewomen were employed to perform a specialised task involving the protection of women and children. Although the entry of women into police work might be seen as an example of the break with the Victorian view of women's role of domesticity and dependence and the challenge to male supremacy, nevertheless
Carrier, John Woolfe
History
The acceptance and statutory recognition of women as police officers in England and Wales with special reference to the Metropolitan Police, 1914-1931. ~The Acceptance and Statutory Recognition of Women as Police Officers in England and Wales, with special reference to the Metropolitan Police, 1914-1931. ~ This study traces the history of women police up to the point where their employment received statutory recognition through the issuing of Regulations. The tactics of the various pressure groups are described, and the arguments for and against women police, as they were presented to the various Departmental Committees of Inquiry, and a Royal Commission, are discussed and analysed. During the First World War two factors contributed to the growing public interest in the idea of women police: the setting up of large army camps which attracted young women who appeared to be in moral danger, and the employment of large numbers of women and girls in munitions factories who required supervision for reasons of security as well as personal safety. Thus the first policewomen were employed to perform a specialised task involving the protection of women and children. Although the entry of women into police work might be seen as an example of the break with the Victorian view of women's role of domesticity and dependence and the challenge to male supremacy, nevertheless
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