A Resolute mussel farmer: Amélie Dennebouy has challenged gender stereotypes to become a successful mussel entrepreneur in Pénestin, France

Lallouët-Geffroy, Julie (2020) A Resolute mussel farmer: Amélie Dennebouy has challenged gender stereotypes to become a successful mussel entrepreneur in Pénestin, France. Yemaya (61). p. 5. ISSN 0973-1156

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Abstract

“We don’t employ women!” Just how many times Amélie Dennebouy, a mussel farm worker, heard that phrase since she began working in the sector at age 17, it would be impossible to say. “Ten years ago, I realised that it would be difficult to find employment in the production segment because I am a woman,” says Amélie. Stories flood her mind: managers laughing at her when she handed in an application for work as a production worker, pushing her to the sales department instead; the crude questioning of some: “Have you passed under the desk?”

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM537
Keywords:	Yemaya, ICSF, France, Personalities, Women, Gender, Small-scale Fisheries, Mussel, Entrepreneurship
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Chitti Babu ICSF
Date Deposited:	20 Sep 2021 06:26
Last Modified:	26 Mar 2022 04:51
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/1107

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