Representation of women- Cagney and Lacey (taxi cab murders)

The women in this show are shown as strong independent women who can handle themselves. They had a job that would mainly be seen as a man's job in those times, they were police officers. This breaks the trend of the women needing protection from the big bad world because they are going out there to protect others. They don't wear girly outfits they are mainly dressed like a man, a tom boy. Later on in the show the audience is shown that one of the women is a mother and a wife, the husband is having an argument about her job and she sticks up for herself, this is different to many other shows of its time because men were seen as the dominant one in a household. They are intelligent because they are solving the case themselves.