Call to action? Survey highlights the shortcomings of business-as-usual in addressing gender equality in the fishery sector

• Main Authors: Williams, Meryl J., Choo, Poh Sze
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Asian Fisheries Society 2014
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/32554/1/52.%20Call%20to%20action.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/32554/; http://www.asianfisheriessociety.org/publication/downloadfile.php?id=1039&file=WTBkU2JVeDZRVEJPYW1NelRtcFpkMDFFUlRCTlZHY3lUMVJqZUU5RWEzVmpSMUp0VFdwQmVFNVVRVFZOZWtFOQ==&dldname=Call%20to%20Action?%20Survey%20Highlights%20the%20Shortcomings%20of%20Business-

In the fishery sector, too little attention is paid to gender equality, and gender-blind policies and programmes render the issue as peripheral or invisible. Since 1990, the Asian Fisheries Society (AFS) has paid sustained attention to gender, although at a modest level. In order to gauge how the sm...