The Gift of Policewomen

By Robert N Ullman

"Armed with the strong arm of the law and the will to do good," Marie Connolly Owens became the country's first policewoman in 1891. She and her fellow early policewomen--Lola Greene Baldwin and Alice Stebbins Wells, and many more to follow--were often tasked with protecting women and children living and working in harsh urban conditions. They quickly proved themselves valuable as full-fledged officers and detectives in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Through the past century, women's roles in police work have expanded, though they have not always received the respect they deserve on the job. Women still make up a small fraction of officers on our streets, but today they're making headway in landmark leadership roles.

The Gift of Policewomen explores this history through reports and essays of the day, some by the women themselves. Modern readers will gain an appreciation of the daily work policewomen have engaged in for the past 125 years as well as the roadblocks they had to move to do that work.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 057840303X
• ISBN13: 9780578403038
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Nutcracker Publishing
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 8.5"