Hello Guilty feminist it's Helena and Matilda from Media Storm the guilty Feminist Friends that sometimes bring you special

episodes like this one. A few weeks ago on Media Storm I talked about misogyny and

mistrust in the Met Police with Cocaoa Khan, Dr. Leila Hissain and Patsy-Stevenson.

Last year we dug into this, finding evidence of racist discrimination in police recruitment,

with the process of elimination for ethnic minority applicants hoping to change the force from the inside.

But after Media Storm released its investigation, we were contacted by a group of black female police officers who said the situation would be even worse if we looked at it at an intersectional level.

In other words, if we paired race with gender.

Court on camera, a rare opportunity for black women in policing to come together.

Marcia Orr and Karen Gedies were organizing a nationwide policing conference by and for black women.

Because this had never been done, nor had any research been done to prove that they were dealing

with layers upon layers of targeted discrimination, but they had experienced it, so they knew

it was there.

They asked us to find the numbers on gender and race together.

Months of research later, we had the proof they needed.

One in five white women who applied got in. Only one in 14 black women did and the

higher up you get the worse it looks. In the 189 years of Metropolitan Police service existing, there has only been one

woman of color who has actually achieved the rank of Chief Superintendent.

Black women were less likely than women of any other

ethnic minority to get in. They were less likely than black men to get in,

and there are no diversity and inclusion pathways that

acknowledge the particular discrimination they face.

So today we'll hear from black women about their specific experiences of

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