In Effort to Reduce Corruption Among Cops in Mexico City, Are Women Less Corrupt Than Men? Tania Lombrozo - NPR.org
go to original October 1, 2013

In an effort to reduce corruption among traffic cops in Mexico City, officials are replacing the predominantly male force with women.

The strategy was first attempted in Mexico back in 1999, with the reasoning that women were more likely to be perceived as trustworthy and, perhaps, to be more honest as well. As Alejandro Gertz Manero, the police chief in 1999, explained in The New York Times:

"We are trying to regain the confidence of the people. And I think it will be easier for women to get closer to the people. In Mexico we see women as more gentle, more polite."

The logic in 2013 isn't so different: An NPR story that aired this weekend reports Mexican authorities as saying that women are more trustworthy and less corrupt than men.

But is this really the case?

The question isn't a new one. But a new study by Justin Esarey and Gina Chirillo, summarized in a Rice University news report and forthcoming in the journal Politics and Gender, provides some fresh perspectives.

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