Antón Rubio Concha, Grueso Hinestroza Merlin Patricia, Marín López Montserrat
Department of Social Psychology and Anthropology, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
School of Management and Business, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.
Front Psychol. 2021 Sep 27;12:713696. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.713696. eCollection 2021.
The impediments and barriers that women face in entering and developing a police career have received relatively little attention from researchers. As of today in Europe, despite the slow progress, the 25% barrier to female representation has already been overcome in several countries. However, many areas remain closed to women within police organizations. In this context, research was conducted based on a content analysis of the perceptions of 56 police officers, 28 men and 28 women with considerable police experience, occupying executive leadership positions from a total of 26 European countries. Data was collected through a questionnaire composed of 23 open questions. The results show a considerable gap between the perceptions of male and female police executive leaders with regard to access, career development and workplace conditions faced by policepersons. According to the results, the mirage of equality, dominant in the view of male police officers, is a major barrier to achieving real equality, both horizontally and vertically. What implications these results have on the strategies that police organizations should follow to achieve the challenge of inclusion are discussed, and new ways of analysis are proposed.
女性在进入和发展警察职业过程中所面临的障碍和壁垒，相对而言较少受到研究人员的关注。截至目前在欧洲，尽管进展缓慢，但在一些国家已经克服了女性占比25%的障碍。然而，在警察组织内部，许多领域仍对女性关闭大门。在此背景下，研究基于对56名警察（28名男性和28名女性，他们来自总共26个欧洲国家，拥有丰富的警察经验且担任行政领导职务）看法的内容分析展开。数据通过一份由23个开放式问题组成的问卷收集。结果显示，男性和女性警察行政领导在警察入职、职业发展以及工作场所条件等方面的看法存在相当大的差距。根据结果，在男性警察看来占主导地位的平等幻象，是在横向和纵向实现真正平等的主要障碍。文中讨论了这些结果对警察组织为应对包容性挑战应遵循的策略有何影响，并提出了新的分析方法。
