Community Cohesion and Diversity Unit

The Gender Agenda

Aims
The 'Gender Agenda' aims to make improvements for all women who work in the police force, whether as police officers or police staff.
It aims to:

• Maintain focus on the issues for women employees
• Challenge tradition, myth and discrimination
• Identify potential solutions for every identified issue/obstacle/problem
• Ensure all arguments are evidence based
• Explain and create an understanding within and outside the service of the challenges facing women officers and staff
• Endeavour to make sure beneficial changes happen

Vision
To generate thriving organisations which support women in achieving their full potential and making their full contribution to their organisation.

Values
To support a moral and ethical approach which ensures that all staff, regardless of their membership of any identifiable category, are neither advantaged nor disadvantaged in pursing their duty or their career.

Long Term Aims
The long term aims of the Gender Agenda include:

• To achieve a gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation balance across the rank structure and specialisms consistent with the proportion of women in the economically active population
• To have a woman's voice in influencing policy
• To develop an understanding of the competing demands in achieving a work/life balance and a successful police career
• To have a working environment and equipment of the right quality and standards to enable women employees to do their jobs professionally