Monfort, Marie Christine and Briceno-Lagos, Natalia and Gallagher, Jayne and Noble, Leonie and Williams, Meryl J. and Lukanga, Editrudith (2019) Op-ed: Boosting women in seafood and ending gender inequality.
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International Women’s Day, on 8 March, has become the day of the year to highlight what women do and review progress. Some workplaces have joined in celebrating this day, featuring heartening commitments to gender equality. But it is also frequent to see in the workplace the omission, forgetfulness, or ignorance of what this day commemorates: the international day of women's rights. We are living in a historic moment where the fact that women still participate in society and in the labour market on an unequal footing with men is more topical than ever. The seafood sector, in which at least 100 million women participate but wield little authority, is, like other male-dominated industry sectors, a fertile environment for reform. Seeking to achieve gender equality and to set up a gender agenda that recognizes and empowers women in the seafood industry, many institutions and organizations in the fishing and aquaculture sector globally have organized. While this is an important step, we still need the participation of all relevant seafood actors for real change. Today, we want to call attention and ask the seafood community, private as well as public, to engage more actively in achieving true gender equality.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Women, Gender, Equality, Labour Market, Leadership |
| Subjects: | Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture |
| Depositing User: | Jeeva ICSF Rajan |
| Date Deposited: | 16 May 2022 04:30 |
| Last Modified: | 24 May 2022 04:55 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/13620 |
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