The Effect of Police Culture on Women and Their Performance in Policing

The present article primarily describes and reviews each and every feminine and masculine characteristic, the characteristics which we customarily or socially consider as feminine or masculine, and later classifies the values into two positive and negative categories. The article then analyzes and reviews a masculine organization which is governed by masculine values in terms of organizational and individual relations, and label the police force as one of the most masculine organizations in which women too are partly active. Consequently dual value approaches emerge in which masculine values in the police organization govern as dominant values on the one hand, and feminine values and womanpower should prove itself and survive as a minority on the other. At this time the men’s view toward women and vice versa as well as the viewpoints proposed in this respect will be important, whereby the author reaches a general conclusion concerning the advantages and disadvantages of employing women in a masculine organization like the police force.