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This chapter describes the various factors behind the rapid expansion of women police between the mid-1960s and 1970s. These include general factors that led to an increase in policing demand and specific factors that led to more demand for policewomen. The two-pronged contemporaneous re-organisation of police work explains how gender enabled the proliferation of tasks deemed suitable for policewomen. Because of the equal pay movement and its success, the discourse of difference prominent in the 1950s was overshadowed by a discourse of equality. However, closer reading of the materials reveals inconsistencies and exaggerations to play up policewomen’s achievements, as well as a persistent need to qualify policewomen as feminine and therefore different, despite the fact that they were now supposedly “equals” to their male counterparts. Women were expanding to a broader range of units but the work that they did was still sex-typed. The expansion also created unexpected problems for some divisions and units, mostly because of gendered policies of the HKP. |
