ABSTRACT
Why hasn’t the maritime industry caught up with gender equality “quotas” like other industries did? Has this industry been neglected because there was not enough global spotlight on the status quo of women in the maritime community maritime industry, which is pretty wide. A kind of sector like the maritime one, not developing its dynamics, will impact all the other existing industries.
The key issue is to focus on education: making space for educational programs dealing with maritime matters at different levels, to a more practical instruction to cover other roles in the sea industry’s chain. Knowledge has always been the means through which freedom and the evolution of humanity are expressed. The solution might be in the promotion of the maritime industry just like the scheme that has already been used in the IT industry with female programmers. Labor laws will have to be duly taken care of, in order not to change the social stability in family terms.
If in the past, muscle – traditionally a male dominated trait – was the “instrument used on board and off-shore, in the future the new muscle” will be intellectual skills.
By making the maritime industry more open to women we are changing the statistics, and bringing success to UNSDG goals. By de-stigmatizing this industry we are helping families, ending child labor and ending exploitation and domestic abuse. As women will be more economically and socially independent.