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Armed with the strong arm of the law and the will to do good, Marie Connolly Owens became the country's first policewoman in 1891. She and her fellow early policewomen--Lola Greene Baldwin and Alice Stebbins Wells, and many more to follow--were often tasked with protecting women and children living and working in harsh urban conditions. They quickly proved themselves valuable as full-fledged officers and detectives in the early decades of the twentieth century. Through the past century, women's roles in police work have expanded, though they have not always received the respect they deserve on the job. Women still make up a small fraction of officers on our streets, but today they're making headway in landmark leadership roles. The Gift of Policewomen explores this history through reports and essays of the day, some by the women themselves. Modern readers will gain an appreciation of the daily work policewomen have engaged in for the past 125 years as well as the roadblocks they had to move to do that work.

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Robert Neal Ullman has lived most of his life in Oregon. With a master's of teaching degree from Portland State University, he taught eighth-grade social studies and coached cross-country and track for twenty-six years. In 1985 he was a semifinalist in Oregon for the Teacher in Space Project. He and his family also lived in Pinchbeck, England, for a year, where he taught on a Fulbright Teacher Exchange. Mr. Ullman has done extensive research on his family tree and has had several articles published in the Oregonian regarding genealogy. After years of research and interviews on women in the field of police work, this is his first published book. Mr. Ullman has two sons, two daughters-in-law, and one granddaughter. He lives with his wife in beautiful Central Oregon.

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