When thirty-two women were hired as mounted police officers in 1974, it was a media sensation. After all, these were not
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Table of contents :
Content: The riders of the Plains --
Matrons, specials, and the unpaid Mountie --
The push toward reform --
The arrival of women in the RCMP --
Training female mounties --
Women in red serge --
Running in damn heels --
The myth of physical prowess --
Women as figures of authority --
The fight for equality --
Sexual harassment --
Virden, Manitoba, 1978 --
Post 1990: breaking the silence.