Cagney and Lacey

Cagney and Lacey - start to 3.58

The women as represented as being in power as they are both police officers, and it a positive way. Showing that women can get high jobs, also they were shown arresting men as the start. But their boss is still a man, showing that they are still the most powerful. As they are both wearing normal clothes suggests they are high up as they don't have a uniform that they have to wear. One of the women have a husband. Also it shows they have power, as there is a picture of the holding a gun. Their is visual codes of they having guns and badges, giving them a status. Both wearing sensible clothes, with plain colours. Shown as a housewife a she is seen giving him his lunch and taking the children to school.