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At the beginning of Jenny Hilton's 34 years in the Metropolitan
Police, women constituted less than 1% of the force. Her
entertaining and insightful memoir highlights some of the major
social changes over the past 60 years and the difficulties
experienced by a woman in a man's world. The book paints a vivid
picture of London of the 1950s and 1960s, of changing attitudes to
class and gender in society and the problems of racism, corruption
and heavy drinking which were rife among colleagues. During her
early years, policewomen were largely a specialist branch and were
relied upon by the men to deal with prostitutes, teenagers and
neglected children. It was only after the introduction of equal
opportunities legislation and the loss of their specialist status
that she became conscious of sexism and resentment in the force.
Hilton progressed through the ranks to the rank of commander and by
1986 she was one of only two senior policewomen in the Met, at a
time when pro-rata there should have been twenty-five. Upon
retiring from the force, she was appointed a life peer in the House
of Lords.
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