How Women in Policing Navigate Gender Expectations & Identities in Scottish Police Culture

苏格兰警察部门妇女100周年的庆祝活动倡导提高女性警官的进步和地位，重点放在内部性别议程上。我提议的研究试图重新引起学术界对苏格兰警察内部存在的不平等和分歧的关注；质疑苏格兰警察中的女性如何驾驭与男性警察文化相关的明显冲突的性别认同。这项研究还试图突出社会科学研究在揭露往往被视为理所当然的压迫制度和与刑事司法组织的利益冲突方面的突出地位。最重要的研究问题是“女性警务人员如何适应苏格兰警察文化中的性别期望和身份认同？”被分成三个子问题。考虑到围绕女警察的相互矛盾的证据和将女性自己的观点放在首位的重要性(Flavin，2001：274)，性别不平等在多大程度上被认为是苏格兰女警察中的一个问题？同样地，“女性同事会不会感到男同事和女同事的持续抵制或广泛接受？”寻求建立积极和消极的经历，反对将女警察描述为受害者，以及妇女是否感到受到其他女同事的屈从。“女性在兼职和灵活工作模式方面有什么经验？”鉴于其框架是警务工作中性别平等的最大障碍，也应予以探讨(Wood，2013)。

Celebrations of the 100th anniversary of women in Scottish policing advocate the progress and advancement of female officers, focusing the gender agenda internally. My proposed research attempts to realign academic attention on the inequalities and divisions that exist within Police Scotland; questioning how women in Scottish policing navigate the apparent conflictual gender identities associated with the masculine cop culture. This research also attempts to highlight the saliency of social scientific research in exposing often taken for granted oppressive systems and conflicts of interest with in Criminal Justice Organisations. The overarching research question 'How do Women in Policing Navigate Gender Expectations & Identities in Scottish Police Culture?' is broken down into three sub-questions. Given the conflicting evidence surrounding policewomen and saliency of prioritising women own perspectives (Flavin, 2001:274) 'To what extent is gender inequality perceived as a problem among Scottish Policewomen?'. Likewise, 'Do female officers feel continual resistance or wide acceptance from male and female colleagues?' seeks to establish both positive and negative experiences, opposing depictions of policewomen as victims and whether women feel subordinated by fellow female colleagues. 'What are femaleofficer's experiences of part-time and flexible working patterns?' shall also be explored given its framing as biggest barrier to gender equality in policing (Wood, 2013).