Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-13-2020

Publication Title

Police Quarterly

Volume

23

Issue

4

First Page

427

Last Page

450

Abstract

Research indicates that women are still underrepresented in policing and that police culture is not fully accepting of its sisters in blue. As police organizations strive toward building an inclusive workforce, we must understand how women, already in the field, view their place and experiences within their jobs, organizations, and workgroups. Thus, in the current research, we use a comparative sample (n¼832) of male and female officers to examine perceptions of fit in the job, organization, and workgroup, and how these perceptions relate to reports of workplace incivilities. Findings indicate that women "fit in" with the job and the broader agency, but they are less likely than men to feel they belong within their workgroup. This relationship was partially mediated by workplace incivilities, indicating that women’s experience of subtle forms of discrimination partially explains their lower levels of fit in their workgroup.

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Sage in Police Quarterly on April 13, 2020, available online:

https://doi.org/10.1177/1098611120917942

Reuse restricted to noncommercial and no derivative uses.

Authors own copyright to this version.


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