Health Care : Current Reviews

Survival in an â??All boys clubâ?: Policewomen in Serbia

Global Healthcare & Fitness Summit

July 20-22, 2015 San Francisco, USA

Danijela Spasic, Sladjana Djuric2 and Zorica Mrsevic3

1Academy of Criminalistic and Police Studies, Serbia 2University of Belgrade, Serbia 3Institute of Social Sciences, Serbia

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Health Care: Current Reviews

Abstract:

The paper is based on the results of the first qualitative research focusing on the position of police women in Serbia. The research subject is the position of women employed in law enforcement i.e., identifying the problems the police women in Serbia are faced with relating to their job: They have problems finding, getting and keeping jobs. The research was conducted in June-August 2011 on a sample of 30 police women of various standings as working police officers taking into account the types of jobs, police schools they finished, their professional experience and the size of the police organization they are employed with. The core questions in the analysis related to the police women�??s experience in the course of their education while getting employed and dealing with police duties as well as to the possibilities of promotion, recognized types of discrimination at work and defense mechanisms for overcoming it. Although considerable improvement was noted regarding the status of women in the process of police education, most participants in the research had negative experience in the course of finding a job; they also experienced limitations with regard to their promotion as well as various sorts of harassment at work. Each of the participants developed a range of defense tactics and adjusted to the circumstances and work environment.

Biography :

Email: danijela.spasic@kpa.edu.rs