A policeman in Kuwait refused to salute a female police officer just because she is a woman. He told the woman police officer that it is below his dignity to salute her she is a woman and I am a ‘man’. The male police officers citing local social values, cultural norms and local traditions to justify their stance.

The woman police officer has filed a formal complainted against the policeman. It will be interesting to see what will be the outcome of the complaint.

The women police officers were graduated on March 25, 2009 and have been facing such problems since then. One Ministry of Interior (MoI) official has been quoated saying that the ministry is considering the options of paying female officers an additional KD 50 on top of their wages for every salute which male colleagues refuse to give them or imposing administrative penalties on the male police officers in question.

Source:gulfnews