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Empowerment of fisherwomen in Kerala – an assessment

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Title Empowerment of fisherwomen in Kerala – an assessment
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Creator Shyam,S Salim
Geetha,R
 
Subject Assessment
Empowerment
Fisherwomen
Kerala
 
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Investing in women capabilities and empowering them to exercise their choice is not only valuable itself but also the surest
way to contribute to the economic growth and development (UNDP, 2008). The fisheries sector is an important source of
livelihood for women. In India, about 25% t of women labour force is involved in pre-harvest activities, 35% in export
marketing and 40% in internal marketing. The fisherwomen in Kerala play an important role in the fisheries sector in terms
of their involvement in fishery related activities viz., fish vending, fish drying, prawn peeling, sorting, grading, fish packing,
and net making. The study was focused on the empowerment status of fisherwomen in Kerala across the four occupational
groups viz., fish retailer, fish vendor, dry fish makers, and value added fish producers. The specific objectives were to
estimate the social, political and economic empowerment of fisherwomen involved in processing and marketing of fish and
fishery products in Kerala. The study was based on the data collected from primary and secondary sources of selected coastal
districts across the state. The different empowerment parameters like social, economic, legal and political were analysed
with the help of scoring indices. The study revealed that highest level of gender discrimination faced by all the respondents
across the four different occupational groups were in handling, transporting and storing bulk quantities of fish resources. The
assessment of the empowerment indicated that the maximum empowerment was among the value added fish producers
followed by retailers and least for the dry fish makers and vendors . The fisherwomen were politically empowered and less
empowered legally. Overall, the results showed that, in Kerala, the fisherwomen were more politically empowered and also
the composite fisherwomen empowerment index was high indicating better status of fisherwomen in former than in latter.
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Date 2021-09-16T08:12:49Z
2021-09-16T08:12:49Z
2013
 
Type Article
 
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/63142
 
Language English
 
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