Malaysia: Strong and resilient
Women’s capacity for entrepreneurship calls for more opportunities in alternative livelihoods to be made available for women in the coastal villages of Kuching, Sarawak. Coastal research in Sarawak, Malaysia, typically, does not target gender. Some projects have added gender-segregated data, but gender studies in fisheries generally remain unfunded. Given the difficulty of obtaining funding, gender scoping studies and needs analyses are rare. As a result, most women working in fisheries remain unidentified and unrecorded. In local culture, men’s presence overpowers that of women. Many women marry young and bear children while still in their teens. There is even a case of a woman becoming a great grandmother at age 60.
Title of publication: Yemaya ICSF's Newsletter on Gender and Fisheries
Issue: 65
Page range: 16
Author: Aazani Mujahid
Organization: The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Year: 2022
Country/ies: Malaysia
Type: Newsletter article
Full text available at: https://www.icsf.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Yemaya_65_Strong_and_resilient_Aazani_Mujahid.pdf
Content language: English