First and foremost, I just want to thank you so much for making our trip so good! You were absolutely fantastic to meet!
My work was a comparative study between Sweden and Tanzania. The work focused on female police officers from each country. I am very pleased with my work despite the fact that it has been difficult to write. It was much more difficult to conduct interviews in Tanzania than what I thought from the beginning.
The aim of this work was to investigate how Sweden´s and Tanzania´s female police officers perceive their profession as a woman. A comparison that was based on the female patrolling police officers in Tanzania experience their professional role differently than what the patrolling female police officers in Sweden, and if, why in such a case? The questions to the work was: How does a Swedish and Tanzanian female police officer experience their professional role in external service from a gender perspective. How is female police officers experience in Sweden and Tanzania relevant to sustainable development?
It is important to be aware that the results of this study cannot be generalized to all female police officers in Sweden and in Tanzania. Ofcourse, not all police officers experience it as my result shows. The result is based on the interviews I have done, but it is a generalization for how all female police officers experience in their profession. It was also the case that the answers I received from the Swedish police are slightly more developed and detailed than the answers from the Tanzanian police officers . The police officers from Tanzania were more reserved by themselves and did not want to develop or answer many questions, this is important to keep in mind.
I chose to focus mainly on the differences that existed between the interviewees in Sweden and Tanzania. There are differences for how the police should look like. In Tanzania, there are more strict rules for how a police officer should look. In Sweden, the female police officer do not consider it as a problem that their male colleagues have a better physical ability. In Tanzania, they believed that it is better with male police officers because of their physical ability. The female police officers from each country believe that they are being treated worse than their male colleagues by the public because they are women. They have experienced that they have not been respected by the public. But the women police officers from Tanzania experience this more. On the question of the appropriate characteristics of a police officer, the Swedish police respond that the most important thing is to have a good social ability and be able to communicate well. The police officers from Tanzania answer that a good police officer should have respect. Respect for laws and regulations and for people in higher positions. In the question of how a police officer should handle a stressful situation, the interviewees from both Sweden and Tanzania answer that they should be calm and try to maintain a good communication instead of using their physics or other means.
In my analysis I then discussed why my result was as it was. After my results, I can now really see great contrasts for how women from different countries experience their professional role despite the fact that this means similar work tasks. I have discussed the results from the interviews by a theory about gender. I have examined how Sweden's and Tanzania's work on gender differs. I have looked at how the Swedish Government looks like and how Tanzania's Government looks like. I have examined how the labour market for women look like in the respective countries. These are various factors that have affected my results.
It has been very fun and interesting to write about this topic. Difficult but at the same time fun. I am so grateful for all the help I received and that I meet you all.
Regards Ellen
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