Job Satisfaction among Women Police Employees in Maharashtra

Women in policing have been the subject of considerable study for the past 20 years. While women perform as well as men in various patrol assignments and situations, they still face a significant amount of disapproval from the male police personnel population. Citizens, however, have shown a greater acceptance of women in this male dominated occupation and a greater confidence in women's abilities to effectively perform difficult patrol tasks. In India, according to the latest statistics of the home ministry, women constitute 5.3 per cent of the country's police forces. Women have dual responsibilities, one hand she has to deal with her personal life which includes Family, husband, grandfather mother, child etc. and on another hand, she has to deal with Job responsibility. It has found that the number of working hour has a direct impact on health, quality of work as well as personal life and social life of women police employees. Maharashtra Police IAST Mahara ra Polis Seva, formerly Bombay State Police is the law enforcement agency responsible for the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is headed by Director General of Police, Rajnish Seth IPS , and headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is one of the largest police departments in the country, having about 36 district police units in the state. The Maharashtra Police Department has a strength of nearly 1.95 lakh. It also has 15,000 women in its force. Prof. Pratima Balasaheb Pawar | Dr. Sunita P. Chaudhari "Job Satisfaction among Women Police Employees in Maharashtra" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-6 , October 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd52156.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/social-science/52156/job-satisfaction-among-women-police-employees-in-maharashtra/prof-pratima-balasaheb-pawar