Women In Law

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Women in Law

Even with laws that are made against prejudice, in some place’s women are still

considered as house material and not work material. Women who enforce the law are treated as

pushovers and it is becoming a larger problem all the time. For women who work as lawyers or

judges it is harder because in order for them to become a lawyer they need permission from the

court of their state which is made up usually of men. It is wrong to judge women like that.

Women have just as much right to do it as the men do. In years past there has been very little

support for women in the field of law, more people should stand up for women and more women

should learn how to work in law.
Women who enforce the law in jobs like the FBI or LAPD are just as efficient as the

men are in there duties. Mrs. Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority Association says, “Women

officers are more efficient and less violent at diffusing violent situations”. Mrs. Smeal is right,

whenever there is a woman police officer on shows like “Cops” or “Americas Most Wanted”

she handles the situation very calmly, and is aware of every danger. Life for a cop is already hard,

with having to worry if they will live an other day or if they will die in the line of duty, prejudice

just makes it worse for the women cops. Hopefully women are not discouraged because of the

way some men treat them. Women are good cops, in fact Mrs. Smeal says that “Women are more

likely considered as friendly and service oriented by members of there community”. Women in

law enforcement deserve the same privileges as men do. A study of police Brutality in the LAPD

by the Christopher Commission found that out of the 120 officers with the greatest number of use

of force reports, no women officers were found. And that women officers compromised only

about 3.4 % of officers involved in about 83 of the most ...