The survey emphasizes the progress, but barriers remain

For this year's international women in the maritime day, the IMO published the results of a new global survey, which was carried out together with Wista International. The survey showed that women estimate 19 percent of all employees in the maritime sector worldwide, with high variability among the sub -sectors. Women dominate the area in the fields of public relations, marketing, advertising, crewing and recruitment, but only make up one percent of the world's active seafaring workforce – which reflects both the opportunities and the long -term challenges for women in the sea path.

“Women remain a small part of seafarers and underline the urgent need for further engagements and
Action. We have to double our efforts to promote a really diverse and integrative maritime industry-a one in which talent is recognized and promoted, regardless of gender to bring us to a new digital and decarbonized maritime era, “we said in a maritime program in a maritime program in a maritime program, in its fourth Maritime program, in his quarter, and through the Mainsty Secretary.

The survey showed that women in the private sector make up 16 percent of total workers on coasts and seafarers. This is a remarkable decline compared to the level specified in the opening survey in 2021 – 29 percent and probably reflects a change in the composition of the answered companies. The survey was carried out online and was voluntary, and most organizations and companies participating this year were new additions, which made the comparison between the two surveys difficult.

Nevertheless, the overall trend remains consistent: women can be found in the roles on land – from the entry level to the board – but they are still with constant obstacles for employment at sea. Of the 179 ships who took part in the survey, only 85 said that they actively employ women on their ships. A company was in advance about his approach: “We do not hire women in offshore support ships,” wrote the company in a section “Free Response”.

A recently carried out survey under maritime experts after the global maritime forum showed that 29 percent of women identified discrimination due to gender as an important obstacle to their career. However, the WiSTA/IMO survey showed that only 13 percent of those surveyed try to consider discrimination through the use of prior bedding training, and the majority of the respondents have no guideline for gender equality.

“The data indicates the continuing presence of obstacles such as gender stereotypes, security concerns at the workplace, lack of family -friendly guidelines and the persistent gender wage gap. “I hope that the results of the results of 2024 in Maritime survey lead the measures that we have to take to bring about cultural changes, as we still have a long way to improve gender diversity and break gender bias.”

Petraki and Dominguez discussed the results in a symposium on Saturday in the IMO headquarters together with panel discussions on certain questions and individual perspectives (below).

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