RT Article
T1 Multiracial Feminism: An Intersectional Approach to Examining Female Officers’ Occupational Barriers in Federal Law Enforcement
JF Women & criminal justice
VO 31
IS 5
SP 327
OP 341
A1 Yu, Helen H.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1770925112
AB There has been a rise in scholarship targeting women’s experiences in federal law enforcement. Missing, however, are the women of color, as all previous studies capture women as a homogeneous group without regard to race/ethnicity. Using a combined survey dataset from sworn female officers (n = 1,189) employed by two federal law enforcement agencies, this article employs multiracial feminism as a framework to differentiate women’s experiences in the workplace and provides an exploratory analysis of occupational barriers utilizing an intersectional approach to race and gender. Specifically, this study employs an independent-samples t-test to explore the responses between White women and minority women, as well as each minority racial/ethnic group. The findings suggest women of color collectively, as well as individual minority racial/ethnic groups, have varying workplace experiences and perspectives in comparison to White women, especially in response to a perceived glass ceiling to promotions, an inclusive work culture, and experiencing sex discrimination.
K1 Federal law enforcement
K1 Multiracial feminism
K1 Intersectionality
K1 Gender
K1 Race
DO 10.1080/08974454.2020.1734146