the media and women CO's and Cops...

According to Britton when we think of a prison we often think of a well fitted men in a uniform caring a flashlight or a light it is often dark or dangerous but we never tend to picture a women in prison as a Correctional Officers. This is prevalent in our media. We often see women in more law related films and shows in courtrooms are lawyers but not as correctional officers or police officers and if there are any they are often less feminine and with a very build body physic.

In the media there is often no signs of women working with men in the same field. If womens are working in a prison facility they are often no men correctional officers with them and if so they are in need of their help.
The images of women in these positions are typically negative because they are based on the norms of white femininity. In the video the her husband doubted her abilities because he felt that she wouldn’t be able to withstand the physical aspect of the job because she is a woman. The promotional video in a way did the same thing by putting a negative light on traditional women’s work . They described the characteristics of non-traditional jobs as being “exciting” versus the daily roles women are sometimes forced to take. It also seems as women have to "learn" about non-traditional jobs implying that traditional women's work requires no “learning”.

Female correction officers often have to make a choice whether they want to adapt to male-defined requisites to be successful and forgo their “femininity or go against the male-defined roles and risk their success within the norms of the organization. Male officers don’t have to deal with what image they want to portray.

In order to stop this negative aspect of women working in prison the media should portray more life stories about women correctional officers instead of de-feminizing them. Reality T.V shows in a way are more popular and it seems that it takes viewers with another perspective if they see its real and its not just actors. The one show I can think of is Women Cops four women’s lives are recorded as well on the job in which most of them work for a sheriffs department. The women show what they go through as well as how they are in their intimacy of their home. More media should portray women in a positive way rather than in the traditional view in order to at least change the media of the way it thinks of women.