| Summary: | The aim of this study is to explain why the Swedish police organisation has difficulties recruiting women into leadership. Using the Swedish version of the Bem Sex -Role Scale, policemen and policewomen in a smaller Swedish police region identified themselves as having feminine or masculine gender identity. The study specifically looked for differences and similarities between leaders or non leaders. Is there a selection of masculinity over femininity in the Swedish police organisation? The findings in the study were interesting. The results found that there were no significant differences between policewomen and policemen regarding masculine gender identity. And more interesting was that the female police leaders had a tendency of having more masculine gender identity than the female non- leaders. The study takes its course from the Kanter and Acker theory regarding power and gendered institutions, through Connell and hegemonic masculinity and to the doing of gender and contemporary research to explain why the police organization still, after many years of women being present, is overall masculine and reproduce masculine leaders and therefore constantly lack numbers of female police leaders.
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