The challenge
One in two seafood workers is a woman. Women make up 50% of the workforce in processing, cleaning and trading fish, and are largely concentrated in low-paid, seasonal jobs without health, safety and labour rights protections. Ensuring gender parity in many ocean sectors and through the ocean supply chain would contribute to achieving sustainable development more broadly, from ending poverty and hunger to boosting jobs.
The Action Track
Friends of Ocean Action is prioritizing ocean solutions that ensure women and men have equal access to the businesses, governance, productive resources, institutions and organizations, knowledge and technologies, markets, decent employment and social protection that are related to a healthy ocean.
Partners
Council of World Women Leaders (CWWL)