The police are becoming increasingly female, but not at management level. This is the result of the ‘Women’s Promotion Working Group’ project, which was carried out in 2022 on behalf of Minister of the Interior Gerhard Karner. On the occasion of International Women’s Day, we asked two female officers from Styria what the problem is and why so few women want to be at the top of the executive branch.
The results are sobering. Although the share of women in Styria’s executive branch is constantly increasing – in 2013 around 15 percent of people in uniform were women, and by January 2024 this was already almost 27 percent – only twelve percent of management positions are held by women.
“Conservative backgrounds”
But why don’t women want to take on leadership roles in law enforcement? The project manager of the “Women’s Promotion Working Group” and the only director of the state police in Austria, Michaela Kohlweiß from Carinthia, responded: “The background is still conservative in nature.”
Source: Krone
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