Women in the Untied States today have far more freedom in the law enforcement field than they once did. Today women are being hired as police officers, FBI agents, lawyers and many other positions in different departments to help our country and their communities.

I attended a lecture in my criminal justice class by Prit Paul Kaur, a Post-Doctoral Scholar and woman from India. She conducted a study about the emerging role of women in the law enforcement field in India.

Kaur started her speech by first explaining how women in India were treated poorly by men and how they weren&t thought of very highly in the social aspect of the country.

Kaur also shared that by being a woman in India meant that you couldn&t go outside the house alone, that you had to work inside the house and how most of the women are married at a very early age and are treated sometimes violently by the men in the country.

I knew that women were treated differently in India than in the U.S. from other classes that I&ve taken, but I was shocked at how bad it really was. It surprised me that they would kill their babies if they found out early that the unborn baby would be a girl.

I personally couldn&t imagine starving my child or harming it in any way just because of its gender. The fact that women couldn&t marry out of their social class and how most of their marriages are arranged for them seemed unfair to me.

They couldn&t marry for love, but were forced to marry someone their parents chose for them. I don&t believe I could live in a country that didn&t give their women the freedom to marry whomever they wanted or that treated their women so low.

Kaur continued to tell us that now some women are starting to be able to go out and work outside their homes. She mostly talked about how &efforts are made to encourage women to join police to ensure justice to other women.&

Kaur told us that now about 2 percent of the entire police force is made up of women. Most of these women are energetic, enthusiastic, educated and want to help people or make themselves feel strong.

I was amazed at these numbers and found it interesting that women in another country who are usually not thought very highly of are making this effort to do something to help other women who still might be scared to go to the police believing that the police won&t help them.

I think that it is very incredible how these women are making that effort to change how women are looked at in their country while at the same time making themselves stronger by working as police officers.

Kaur also added that she thought it would help if the police was made up of half females and half males so the women wouldn&t be scared to ask for help or to report some kind of abuse that happened to them.

Kaur told us how there was one woman who waited almost a month before reporting something that happened to her because she was scared that she would be looked down upon in her society.

Women shouldn&t have to live scared in their own country. Women should be able to feel free to go to the police if they need to and not be afraid that they will be beaten or looked down upon. Women are just as important as men and women should be treated like it, not scared of it.