News & Events
Thursday, December 5, 2024
2:00 PM CST (SK) | 3:00 PM EST (ON)
First responders and other public safety personnel (PSP) who are women, 2SLGBTQIA+, and/or ethnoculturally underrepresented do their jobs within established norms and expectations about what it means to be a police officer, a firefighter, a paramedic, a correctional officer. These norms are largely heteronormative and hypermasculine in orientation and create challenging occupational cultures for underrepresented PSP. Discriminatory practices around hiring and promotions, tokenism, sexual harassment, practices that disadvantage childbearing, and negative assumptions around ‘fitness for duty’ are just some of the ways PSP are impacted by occupational cultures that idealize hypermasculine ways of being as occupational standards.
This discussion will explore the ways that occupational stressors specific to gender and other intersectional identities are experienced by women, those who identify as 2SLGBTQIA+, and other underrepresented groups, and how these experiences might interact with or contribute to the known impacts of occupational stress and trauma experienced by public safety personnel.
With panelists:
Andréanne Angehrn
Clinican, Montreal Police Service
PhD candidate, Département de Psychologie
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Dr. José Luís (Joe) Couto
Director, Government Relations and Communications, Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police
Associate Faculty, School of Communication and Culture/School of Humanitarian Studies, Royal Roads University
Dr. Lynne Gouliquer
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Laurentian University
Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology, University of New Brunswick,
President, Métis Nation of Ontario Women’s Council, Métis Nation of Ontario
Dr. Carmen Poulin
Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts
Professor, Psychology, Gender and Women Studies
University of New Brunswick
Moderated by:
Dr. Leslie-Anne Keown
Executive Director, Canadian Institute for Public Safety Research and Treatment (CIPSRT)
Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University
Adjunct Graduate Research Professor, Department of Justice Studies, University of Regina
This event will be presented in English with the option of simultaneous captions or audio translation in French.
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