Asya Studies

Öz

Although women undertake significant roles in working life in today's living conditions, policing can still be perceived as a more male-character profession. However, statistical data shared by official institutions show that female police employment is increasing. For a woman who lives as a mother, wife, sibling, and child, policing is always a second lifestyle that requires self-sacrifice. Therefore, it is crucial to identify the problems faced by women police in their career and domesticity in terms of understanding how the policing profession interacts with these problems in a communicative context. Interpersonal communication of women police officers with different aspects is important. This study aims to examine how female police officers working within the National Police Security Agency experience the communication processes in their work and family life within the framework of gender and woman perception. The sample of this study consisted of 18 policewomen who were working in the Ağrı Provincial Security Directorate. Besides, in the implementation section of the study, face-to-face meetings were made with 18 policewomen. The data obtained during the interview process were analyzed using the content analysis method. Consequently, it has been found that hierarchical communication approach, social identity, and family culture are the dominant elements that shape the professional life and domesticity communication processes of policewomen. At the same time, it has been reached that women are not at the same level as men in terms of health, education, political representation, and economic opportunity on a global scale. In the study, the contents of the processes that female employees establish with other individuals in their interpersonal communication processes have been tried to be examined.