Gleaner, fisher, trader, processor: understanding gendered employment in fisheries and aquaculture
Most research on gender difference or inequities in capture fisheries and aquaculture in Africa and the Asia-Pacific focuses on the gender division of labour. Emerging research on globalization, market changes, poverty and trends in gendered employment within this sector reveals the need to move...
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Blackwell Publishing
2025
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| Online Access: | http://umt-ir.umt.edu.my:8080/handle/123456789/21537 |
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| Summary: | Most research on gender difference or inequities in capture fisheries and aquaculture
in Africa and the Asia-Pacific focuses on the gender division of labour. Emerging
research on globalization, market changes, poverty and trends in gendered
employment within this sector reveals the need to move beyond this narrow
perspective. If gleaning and post-harvesting activities were enumerated, the fisheries
and aquaculture sector might well turn out to be female sphere. A livelihoods
approach better enables an understanding of how employment in this sector is
embedded in other social, cultural, economic, political and ecological structures and
processes that shape gender inequities and how these might be reduced. We focus on
four thematic areas – markets and migration, capabilities and well-being, networks
and identities, governance and rights – as analytical entry points. These also provide
a framework to identify research gaps and generate a comparative understanding of
the impact of development processes and socioecological changes, including issues of
climate change, adaptation and resilience, on gendered employment. Without an
adequate analysis of gender, fisheries management and development policies may
have negative effects on people’s livelihoods, well-being and the environment they
depend on, or fail altogether to achieve intended outcomes. |
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