Women have made many inroads in policing, but barriers remain to achieving gender equity
- Written by Terry Goldsworthy, Associate Professor in Criminology, Bond University
A third of all police personnel in Australia are women, but in some localities, the rates of women officers are trending in the wrong direction.Dean Lewins/AAP
Last week, the Australasian Council of Women and Policing held its 2019 conference, with a focus on how law enforcement responds to women in the communities they serve and how police...
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