Sex-segregated employment data in the recently released State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018 report points to the need for better and more standardised data collection.  July 2018 witnessed the launch of ‘The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018’ (SOFIA 2018)—the flagship report of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. What makes this report particularly interesting is that for the first time, there is the reporting of sex-disaggregated employment statistics. The demand for sex-segregated data has been a long standing one of fishers, their representatives, fishery researchers and civil society organisations struggling for gender equality and equity. This step by the FAO, which is wholly in line with the recommendations of the SSF Guidelines, is therefore indeed very encouraging and useful.