Gender parity
Gender parity
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)
SHE Index
The Nature Conservancy
2019
Engaging with leading institutions and organizations working on gender-related issues
Mapping potential champions within the Friends of Ocean Action and broader networks
Publishing joint letter in support of ensuring gender parity in the ocean on World Ocean Day with great range of high-level signatories
Establishing a working group on ocean gender issues
2020 and beyond
Initiate dialogue and bring together key partners and stakeholders, including around the 2020 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
Continue raising awareness, including on International Women’s Day on 8 March 2020
Identify key gaps and roadblocks for the Friends to take forward as part of the action track
Scope and explore how gender elements can be integrated across all other ocean action tracks
Other action tracks
Plastic pollution
Sustainable ocean production: blue food
Ending illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing
Marine protection and conservation
Decarbonizing the maritime and shipping sectors
Liberating ocean data
Financing ocean innovation
Gender parity
Science-based targets
