Satapornvanit, Arlene Nietes and Treerutkuarkul, Apiradee (2022) Recognizing women fishers and listening to their voices.
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Women are an integral part of the fisheries sector and their communities, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. Despite this fact, their work and labor continue to remain invisible despite various efforts to advocate for recognition. They are underpaid yet overworked while undertaking a wide range of activities in the fisheries sector and in their communities. The situation is not different for women fishers in Southeast Asia. They face challenges over financial and capacity needs as well as opportunities for business and to participate in the decision-making process. The nature of women's work differs by culture and region and between rural and urban areas. The common factor is that it is rarely seen as "productive". It is often perceived as low social value and an extension of the "domestic" space. The space for female fishers to voice out their financial and capacity needs and concerns, as well as equal opportunities to participate in the decision making process, is still limited, according to Ravadee Prasertcharoensuk, Director of the Sustainable Development Foundation in Thailand. She suggested that policymakers should integrate overall labor rights using a gender lens into their organizational systems. The lack of sex-disaggregated data and a mechanism to collect that data is a constraint in systematically addressing gender inequalities. Both women and men in the fisheries sector and in fishing communities should be able to participate in decision making – on fisheries conservation and management. Both men and women have rights to access resources in their communities, participate in the social security system, and secure food security and livelihoods, and these should be recognized.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Women, Fishing communities, Sustainable Development, Food Security, Livelihoods, Fisheries Management, Conservation, Forced Labor, Fishing Vessels, RTI International |
| Subjects: | Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture |
| Depositing User: | Kokila ICSF Krish |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Mar 2025 12:08 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2025 12:08 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/20985 |
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