...social worker and had deliberately sought and secured opportunity to work in this type of service. Many journalists presented the situation in a half-comic...masculine person, grasping a revolver, dressed in anything l>ut feminine apparel, hair drawn tightly into a hard little knot at the back of the head, huge unbecoming...

...Department : The appointment of Mrs. Wells attracted wide newspaper comment because of the fact that she was an educated woman, a social worker, and had deliberately...dressed in anything but feminine apparel, hair drawn tightlr into a hard little knot at the back of the head, huge unbecoming spectacles, small stiff round...

...opportunity to work in a police department. Many journalists presented the situation in half comic manner and pictured the woman police officer in caricature...disfiguring hat, the whole presenting the idea in a most repellent conception and unlovely guise. This, however, was not universally held and many groups of...

...(male) policework. The newcomers were viewed as oddities. Journalists often characterized a policewoman as "a bony, muscular, masculine person, grasping a...back of the head, huge unbecoming spectacles, small round disfiguring hat, the whole presenting the idea in a most repellant and unlovely guise" (Owings...