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Gender equality and empowering women

The UN is committed to promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment to assure that women and men enjoy the same status and have equal opportunities to realize their full human rights and potential.

Gender equality is the equal valuing by society of both the similarities and the differences between women and men and the different roles they play. Targeted measures are often needed to compensate for historical and social disadvantages that prevent women and men from otherwise being equals. These measures may necessitate different treatment of women and men in order to ensure an equal outcome. It is fundamental - and beneficial for all - that women are able to participate in all spheres of life and society. See More...

Photo title: Haenyo, or sea women, statue in Jeju, Korea.

Photo credit: © Chosun Bimbo 2 via Wikimedia Commons.

Women in marine science

Marine science is as vast as the ocean, and research on the ocean – that is, oceanography - has united biology, physics, chemistry, ecology, geochemistry, geology, geophysics, computer and electronic engineering, marine instrumentation and other disciplines in investigations of the marine environment. Though women have succeeded in breaking into many previously male-dominated fields in recent years, it is still unusual to find them in marine science and technology careers.
The UNESCO-IOC has recently launched a series of articles highlighting the contribution of women to marine science. See More...

Photo title: © MOI, Ruby Moothien Pillay and colleagues of the Mauritius Oceanography Institute.

Photo credit: © MOI

Women in fisheries

Fisheries are essential to the well-being of millions of people in the developing world, supporting the livelihoods of 540 million. Capture fisheries and aquaculture provide direct employment for over 45 million people - add to that the important secondary sectors such as handling and processing and women represent half of those involved. See More...

Photo title: A woman collects fish and sipu at sunset in the Dili District, Timor-Leste

Photo credit: UN Photo/Martine Perret

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FAO Fisheries Department ( Institutional Contact )

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FAO-FI

Description

The mission of the Fisheries Department of FAO is to facilitate and secure the long-term sustainable development and utilization of the world?s fisheries and aquaculture. FAO is acutely aware of the fundamental social and economic role played by the fisheries sector in: Meeting global and national sustainable food security. Providing self and paid employment for fishing communities as a means of alleviating poverty in fishing communities and stemming rural/urban drift. Contributing to national and international trade, and Generating national income. Underpinning these basic social and economic objectives is the requirement for fisheries and aquaculture to be responsibly managed. This implies preventing overfishing, co-ordination and delivery of effective research and extension and the empowerment of people, especially women tasks for which many FAO Members are not fully prepared. The Fisheries Department therefore provides, on the request of Members, technical assistance in all aspects of fisheries and aquaculture management and development.

Keywords

FOOD;

FISHERIES;

AGRICULTURE;

FORESTRY

Geography Keywords

WORLD

Type of Institution

Community-based organization

Address

Via delle Terme di Caracalla

Rome

Italy 00100

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http://www.fao.org/fi/default.asp

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