Breaking and Entering: Women Cops Talk About Life in the Ultimate Men's Club

by Connie Fletcher

Based on interviews with female police personnel throughout the country, a journalist illuminates the experience of being a woman in a dangerous job, including life-threatening situations on the street and discrimination, hostility, and sexual harassment in the station house. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Genres: True Crime, Nonfiction

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[Jessica]

This book is a little outdated.

However, the stories of female cops in Chicago from when women were first allowed into Law Enforcement are very interesting.

[Fishface]

A good, if often infuriating and sometimes depressing read about exclusion, sexual harassment and the seemingly bottomless gulf between men and women in spite of all our supposed progress. It was good to see these women succeed, but the price they had to pay was insane. Almost none of this book is about police work; it's 99% about how much it hurts to bang your head against the glass ceiling.

[Alissa]

Very insightful.

[William Omalley]

Interesting perspective on women in law enforcement and the battle for respect