The questionnaire attempts to understand the problems facing women from time of recruitment through domestic life, work and promotion. Initiatives such as this will take some years to redress the current imbalance but are a most positive start. Of an establishment of 130 the average age of policewomen in the FPF is 26.3 years. It is indicative of a male dominated profession that has only recently began recruiting women. The considerably younger age of the female population is a partial explanation as to why women are not properly represented through the ranks.
Indian women are significantly under represented as a proportion of the civilian population.
The FPF should look at current recruiting and endeavour to ensure a race and gender mix that better represents the demographics of the community. The most frequent bad experience was the negative attitude of supervisors towards women with a small number complaining of sexual harassment and lack of respect for women by male counterparts. The most frequent responses were meeting different people and coming across interesting cases. At question 7 respondents were asked to describe the way they had been treated by male members of the same rank . This represents a very high incidence and a serious problem in the workplace for women.