Yemaya Recommends: Gender ideology and manoeuvring space for female fisheries entrepreneurs

Sharma, Chandrika (2009) Yemaya Recommends: Gender ideology and manoeuvring space for female fisheries entrepreneurs. Yemaya (32). p. 12. ISSN 0973-1156

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Abstract

This article explores how gender ideologies shape the ‘maneuvering space’ enjoyed by women fish traders in Ghana, a country where fish marketing and trade in the artisanal sector is almost entirely in the hands of women. While the fishery at sea is seen as a male domain, the market ashore is considered female, each domain with its parallel gendered hierarchies. Overa notes that the power balance between the female and the male hierarchies is, however, often asymmetric—while male leaders usually exercise their authority in society as a whole, the authority of female leaders seldom extends beyond women’s domains.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM281
Keywords:	Yemaya, ICSF, Ghana, Gender, Women, Entrepreneurship, Equality, Out-board Motors (OBM), Small-scale Fisheries, Yemaya Recommends
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Jeeva ICSF Rajan
Date Deposited:	21 Sep 2021 06:28
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2022 06:53
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/568

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