I think Britton names the image of a prison guard/correctional officer perfectly. “the vision in your mind’s eye is probably that of a hulking man in uniform carrying a nightstick or even a gun.” (Britton 1) Now, I would probably go a little farther and say a huge man, very muscular, tall and intimidating. I would also see the prison guard/correctional officer carrying a big gun, dressed in intimidating clothes as well and high black army looking boots. The only reason I have this image is because of the media. I have never actually seen a prison guard/correctional officer in my life, but almost every single media clip I have seen of a prison guard/correctional officer, that is what they look like. Never in a million years would an image of a woman come to mind when I thought of a prison guard/correctional officer and if it did by chance then she would probably look like a man.
When women are in non-traditional jobs, they are not represented well at all, they are definitely the minority. They have to put up with a lot of crap and they are treated unfairly. More specifically with policing-type jobs, they are treated like a man and they are expected to do everything a man would be able to do or else they are called out. Either that or they are babied because men in the policing-type jobs do not think they can do the same job as them. When publicized in the media, policing-type jobs are represented in the same way, they are always men.
Almost all images in popularized media referring to these types of jobs are images of men, but on that rare occasion that there might be a woman, the woman looks very manly. I have never seen a recruitment or promotional film for a job of this sort, but I would assume that the people in them are all men as well.
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