Towards Excellence

(ISSN No. 0974-035X)
(An indexed refereed & peer-reviewed journal of higher education)
UGC-MALAVIYA MISSION TEACHER TRAINING CENTRE GUJARAT UNIVERSITY

THREE DECADES OF STALEMATE: WOMEN IN MARITIME

Authors:

Ashish Mishra, Jigna Trivedi

Abstract:

The article examines the intervention of World Maritime Bodies like United Nation (UN), International Maritime Organization (IMO), International Labor Organization (ILO) and its various associated NGOs/Independent organizations in increasing the participation of women in maritime sector. The maritime sector is amongst the age old sector that always has been male dominated with the participation of woman is as low as less than one percent. The percentage is alarmingly low and in order to increase the participation the World Maritime bodies took various steps through various interventions and regulations. Although, the first globally recognized initiative taken by International Maritime Organization (IMO) only in year 1988 known as “Integration of Women in the Maritime Sector”. Since then IMO, International Labor Organization (ILO), World Maritime University (WMU), various NGO’s and private sectors have been consistently working towards the mission. Various programs, conferences, guidelines and women associations in maritime launched across the world but even after 33 years of International Organization’s intervention the percentage of women in Maritime sector is below Two percent only. The paper highlights and examines the various initiatives taken in last 33 years by world maritime bodies in a chronological order highlighting the effectiveness and limitations leading to a situation of stalemate in the working women population in maritime sector.  

Keywords:

UN, IMO, ILO, WMU, WID, Women, Maritime

Vol & Issue:

VOL.13, ISSUE No.3, September 2021