Fifteen percent of private investigators today are female. It’s quite a leap considering how female private investigators didn’t seem to even exist in the past. Joan Beach, a grandmother, private investigation firm owner, and ex-probation officer all rolled into one, explains that investigation is all about risk-taking and the desire to glue pieces together to solve a puzzle. Gender is irrelevant as long as those qualities are present.

Michelle Platt affirms this. She works as an undercover private investigator and is the dauger of a former CIA counterintelligence officer. She explains how this type of job involves a lot of collaboration. She also says, “The art of a good investigator is one that is able to take their own biases, opinions and emotions out of it, and assess a situation, an individual, a circumstance for what it is, and get down to the heart of the matter.  I think women especially excel at this role.”

Platt, however, also acknowledges the dangers of the job. These are present for both genders but in the end, private investigators must have the ability to take risks to get the results they want.

Private Investigators Association of Virginia President Bill Stollhans explains why private investigation appeals to both genders but more particularly with people-oriented individuals. Private investigation is all about dealing with people and a lot of self-satisfaction may be derived from the results you get.

There are also distinctive advantages which female private investigators have and their male counterparts don’t. Women can do a lot of things that men can’t. Their gender alone makes them less intimidating. Their sweet and harmless facades encourage people to open up more to them. Women are also naturally inquisitive, more detail oriented, and more compassionate. They also tend to have different perspectives from men, and this could be handy in cases involving, for instance, marriages and child custody. Women are also good at undercover work because many still believe that private investigators are always male.

One company that has successfully proven the worth of female private investigators is Minx007, a female-run private investigation firm owned by Arabella Mazzuki. Although the firm offers a wide variety of services in different fronts, their specialty is forming honey traps. The agency describes a honey trap as an “investigation that involves someone being paid to observe or flirt with the person in question to detect signs of infidelity” and designed to see how far “subjects” desire to take things.

In the end, more and more people are trusting the skills of female private investigators, especially as many of them have proven that their gender alone can get some answers.

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