Challenges traditional stereotypes about gender and examines the impact of status and gender on police officers who work together.
Introduction: Women and Men in Policing
The Status Model of Gender Stereotyping
Status Characteristics Theory and the Gender-Stereotyped
Personality Traits
Description of the Study: The Sample of Police Partners and
Measures
Status and Personality: The Dominating, Instrumental, and
Expressive Traits
Coping with Low Status: The Verbal-Aggressive and Submissive
Traits
Police Officers Who Violate Gender Norms: The Bipolar Traits
Self-Esteem: The Impact of Status and Personality Traits
The Patterning of Traits within Individual Personality
Status, Gender, and Personality: Towards an Integrated Theory
Implications for Policing
Appendix
Notes
References
Index
Gwendolyn L. Gerber is Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
"Gwendolyn Gerber's ground-breaking book is a significant
contribution to the understanding of gender stereotyping. Her
research with police officers illuminates the way status and gender
shape personality. Most important, she develops a theoretical model
in the book that integrates the study of gender-stereotyped
personality traits into the broader study of social
interaction."-Margot Nadien Associate Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology Fordham University
"I think the book is fascinating and will be a real contribution to
the literature on policing and workers in general. I like to see
scholars question the nonlithic image of police officers."-Nancy C.
Jurik Professor in the School of Justice Studies Arizona State
University
"This is a highly original and creative piece of work. It has
theoretical implications with respect to different scholarly
disciplines and it has very practical implications with respect to
the composition and use of police terms."-Joseph Berger Professor
of Sociology, Emeritus Stanford University
"This book is highly recommended as a text that is useful to both
scholars and graduate students in a variety of disciplines
interested in gender issues. Practitioners such as police
supervisors, police officers, police officers in training, security
professionals and staff, police counselors and risk management
officers would benifit from reading it. Gerber's book is also
highly recommended for affirmative action officers who are in
charge of recruiting and retaining female officers as well as
affirmative action officers in other fields....[h]er skillful use
of language and rich description would enable a multilayered level
of understanding of her work for undergraduate and graduate
students and fully engage professionals and practitioners in a
variety of fields."-Sex Roles
?[a]pplicable to women in all domains of work, especially those
women who are working in male-typed jobs....[p]rovides us with a
clearer understanding of how status-related expectations guide
interactions, affect personality attributions at work, and
ultimately perpetuate stereotypes about women and men.?-Psychology
of Women Quarterly
?Gerber began this research with a desire to better understand the
diffuculties faced by women police officers in being accepted as
officers who are equally as competent as their male counterparts.
Her findings need not be limited to women in uniform. Indeed, her
research is applicable to women in all domains of woek, especially
those women who are working in male-typed jobs. What began as an
investigation with women and men officers and their supervisors in
New York City's police department, eventually led to information
that provides with a clearer understanding of how status-related
expectations guide interactions, affect personality attributions at
work, and ultimately perpetuate stereotypes about women and
men.?-Psychology of Women Quarterly
?This book is highly recommended as a text that is useful to both
scholars and graduate students in a variety of disciplines
interested in gender issues. Practitioners such as police
supervisors, police officers, police officers in training, security
professionals and staff, police counselors and risk management
officers would benifit from reading it. Gerber's book is also
highly recommended for affirmative action officers who are in
charge of recruiting and retaining female officers as well as
affirmative action officers in other fields....[h]er skillful use
of language and rich description would enable a multilayered level
of understanding of her work for undergraduate and graduate
students and fully engage professionals and practitioners in a
variety of fields.?-Sex Roles
"Ýa¨pplicable to women in all domains of work, especially those
women who are working in male-typed jobs....Ýp¨rovides us with a
clearer understanding of how status-related expectations guide
interactions, affect personality attributions at work, and
ultimately perpetuate stereotypes about women and men."-Psychology
of Women Quarterly
"[a]pplicable to women in all domains of work, especially those
women who are working in male-typed jobs....[p]rovides us with a
clearer understanding of how status-related expectations guide
interactions, affect personality attributions at work, and
ultimately perpetuate stereotypes about women and men."-Psychology
of Women Quarterly
"Gerber began this research with a desire to better understand the
diffuculties faced by women police officers in being accepted as
officers who are equally as competent as their male counterparts.
Her findings need not be limited to women in uniform. Indeed, her
research is applicable to women in all domains of woek, especially
those women who are working in male-typed jobs. What began as an
investigation with women and men officers and their supervisors in
New York City's police department, eventually led to information
that provides with a clearer understanding of how status-related
expectations guide interactions, affect personality attributions at
work, and ultimately perpetuate stereotypes about women and
men."-Psychology of Women Quarterly
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