Gender shapes the differential identities of women and men, their norms, roles and responsibilities. It influences people\u2019s (unequal) access to resources and decision making. It influences people\u2019s agency.<\/p>\n
Fisheries is generally considered a male domain. Women\u2019s roles in fisheries\u2014along the whole value chain, \u00a0in sustaining the fishing families and community, \u00a0in protecting natural resources and local food security\u2014are often glossed over and remain invisible. In the fisheries sector, women face persistent gender-based discrimination and marginalization, differentially defined by the diverse social context.<\/p>\n
Women are overrepresented in vulnerable categories of employment in fisheries. They generally lack tenure security; access to productive assets and market opportunities; decent work conditions; and they have limited access to services like healthcare, child care, credits, insurance, legal aid and capacity building. They are exposed to sexual violence, prejudices and other forms of harassment. Each and every crisis impacts them disproportionately.<\/p>\n
Women are poorly represented in fisheries\u2019 associations, cooperatives and unions. They rarely have a say in the decisions that govern their fisheries and other matters that affect their life and livelihood. Mainstream policies and programmes remain gender-blind or biased. Lack of data undermines women\u2019s role in fisheries.<\/p>\n
For ICSF, since its inception in 1986, valorizing and strengthening women\u2019s roles in fisheries and within organizations has always been a priority. For this it has undertaken research, training, advocacy and publication of the Gender in Fisheries Newsletter Yemaya.<\/a> ICSF played a pioneering role in this. Its \u2018Women in Fisheries\u2019 work has been highlighting the patriarchal practices in fisheries and how these directly relate to the unsustainable exploitation of nature, to poverty and to food insecurity. It has questioned the nature of fisheries development itself, highlighting a \u2018feminist perspective\u2019 for an alternative that is in harmony with the ecosystem and respects life and livelihoods and the human rights of all people. For more information read ICSF\u2019s Gender Policy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gender shapes the differential identities of women and men, their norms, roles and responsibilities. It influences people\u2019s (unequal) access to resources and decision making. It influences people\u2019s agency. Fisheries is generally considered a male domain. Women\u2019s roles in fisheries\u2014along the whole value chain, \u00a0in sustaining the fishing families and community, \u00a0in protecting natural resources and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-gender.php","meta":[],"region":[],"source":[],"country":[],"state":[],"city":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100099,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/100099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}