response # 19

In the democracy now coverage with Geena Davis, she illustrates that the media depiction on females has not changed over the last ten to fifteen years. She discussed some statistics stating that majority of television networks displayed an un-even amount of mal characters to female ones. Brtiiton finds through is stuffy that many men in the years past believe that women did not belong in the prison system unless it was clerical work. However, now men are accepting that fact that women are entering the law enforcement or prison careers. This is fine as long as the women are able to perform the same physical strength as men can. Women were not thought be able to handle the violence in the prisons. Britton finds that women are placed in assignments were violence is low or where men cannot allow to be placed. Such as, the patting down of women within state prisons facilities. This was due to a lawsuit that prisoners filed against the state and federal government for the improper touching of female inmates by male inmates. This is not true however for federal prisons. In federal prisons male officers are allowed to pat down female inmates by using the back of their hands in the chest areas. Females are also discriminated against for administrative positions. In male facilities only one of the administrators who Britton studied was not a male. However females did represent a larger portion of the administration team within all female facilities. Women also receive fewer promotions than male did. This was doing to the value that women held in their positions. Many men felt that a woman did not hold the same value as a man because a male could fill her position. Whereas, if a male filled the position it hold more value do the ability to refill that position. Males are also thought to be able to handle violent situation better than females.