SeaWorks' & WMA's Survey for Women in Shipping
October 2017
The WMA 2017 survey, following up the 2010 and 2015 survey, accomplishes two main objectives :
- To find the current current status of women in the shipping Industry, and
- To examine the psychological effects of women working in the Shipping Industry
The extent of women’s involvement in maritime trade has been identified as important over the years, as well as the apparent discrepancies in gender-based treatment. There is a still huge gap in data relating to women in shipping.
SeaWorks and World Maritime Academy tried to identify the status of women in shipping today and further establish what must be done in future.
In 2010, research on women was carried out by the research team at the WISTA Athens Conference for the first time. Further research was conducted in 2015 and 2017 and the finding were presented at the WISTA International Conference in Rotterdam (October 2017).
