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''God, I love these women! Their breeziness, compassion, humour and resilience are a tonic''

Libby Purves, Times Literary Supplement


In February 1919, London''s first women police officers took to the streets of the city. They battled entrenched gender stereotypes, institutional inequality, sexual harassment and assaults disturbingly familiar to those affecting today''s #MeToo generation of modern women. Female officers, facing resentment from male colleagues, were expected to do little more than ''Make the tea, luv . . .'' and were charged with the sole task of looking after women and children who fell into police hands.

Yet, in the course of a century, policewomen have won the equality they demanded, overcome sexism and prejudice, rejected harassment and sexual assaults and smashed through the glass ceiling to lead, rather than follow, their male colleagues. One hundred years on from those first Women Police Constables, a

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The work described, the advances made and responsibilities now taken on by many women make this a fascinating and encouraging book. * The Police History Society Newsletter 98 *
God, I love these women! Their breeziness, compassion, humour and resilience are a tonic. -- Libby Purves * Times Literary Supplement *

Voices from the Blue

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    A Paperback / softback by Jennifer Rees, Robert J. Strange

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      Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
      Published 6 February 2020
      ISBN-13 9781472143105
      978-1472143105
      ISBN-10 1472143108
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      True crime

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''God, I love these women! Their breeziness, compassion, humour and resilience are a tonic''

      Libby Purves, Times Literary Supplement


      In February 1919, London''s first women police officers took to the streets of the city. They battled entrenched gender stereotypes, institutional inequality, sexual harassment and assaults disturbingly familiar to those affecting today''s #MeToo generation of modern women. Female officers, facing resentment from male colleagues, were expected to do little more than ''Make the tea, luv . . .'' and were charged with the sole task of looking after women and children who fell into police hands.

      Yet, in the course of a century, policewomen have won the equality they demanded, overcome sexism and prejudice, rejected harassment and sexual assaults and smashed through the glass ceiling to lead, rather than follow, their male colleagues. One hundred years on from those first Women Police Constables, a

      Trade Review
      The work described, the advances made and responsibilities now taken on by many women make this a fascinating and encouraging book. * The Police History Society Newsletter 98 *
      God, I love these women! Their breeziness, compassion, humour and resilience are a tonic. -- Libby Purves * Times Literary Supplement *

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