Women Demand More Roles In Maritime Sector

Eko Hot Blog reports that Women are often relegated to the back bench, especially in the maritime sector with the notion that they do not possess the physical and mental strength to wade through the rigours associated with the business. ANOZIE EGOLE writes that the women folk are ready to compete with their male counterparts for leading roles in the industry.

Leading women in Nigeria Maritime Sector- From the left: Ezeoke, Anyika, Eniola-Jegede and Mogo

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Oftentimes, women are considered as weaker vessels and as such, not fit enough to handle some jobs or contracts, especially in the maritime sector. This explains the fact that in the Nigerian maritime industry today, women actively involved in the clearing processes are less than 20 per cent of the total licensed agents in the sector. Most of them operating around the ports axis are the ones, involved in point-of-sales services, sales of recharge cards, food vendors, and phone calls among others.

This can be attributed to how society perceives women to be people who do not really have the physical strength or mental capabilities to carry out some tasks even though in the real sense of it, there is practically nothing a man can do that a woman cannot do.

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Findings have also shown that the recent development in the maritime sector shows that most ship-owners may not like having female seafarers on board their vessels, a development that has left many qualified female seafarers jobless while their male counterparts are allowed to work even when some of them may not be as qualified as some of the females.

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