Examining the motivating factors to join in police force among Women Police: An Empirical Study

In this contemporary world, balancing the life and work is a serious issue to the working women. that too, working in police force is really a challenge to the women since it is traditionally a male dominated profession. Hence an attempt is made to examine the factors which are all influencing the women to choose police force as their career. Survey method is used to collect the data from the respondents through structured questionnaire from previous studies. Purposive sampling method is used to select the sample for data collection. As Tamilnadu has more number of Women Police when compared with other states in India, Tamilnadu is chosen as study area. Statistical Package for Social Science software is used to analyze the gathered data. Cronbach alpha value is used to check the internal consistency of the instrument which is used to collect the data for this study. This study found that “job security” , “power and authority” , “Profession carries prestige” and “Because of friends and relative already in police force” are the main forcing factors to choose police as the career. There is little difference among marital status wise categorised respondents and religious wise categorised respondents with regards to the motivational factors. Married and Hindu categorised respondents are saying that “Job security” is the most influential factor. Divorced and Christian categorised respondents are saying that “power and authority” is the very important motivational factor and Single and Muslim categorised respondents are saying that “Profession carries prestige” is the most influential factor to join in the police force.