HEMISPHERIC SEMINAR: CHALLENGES OF THE WOMAN IN PORTS IN THE XXI CENTURY

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HEMISPHERIC SEMINAR CHALLENGES OF THE WOMAN IN
PORTS IN THE XXI CENTURY

• Women facing technological advances and
  automation in ports

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What is globalization?

• Definition
• the intensification of worldwide social relations
  which link distant localities in such a way that
  local happenings are shaped by events occurring
  many miles away and v.v. (Anthony Giddens).

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Effects of technological advances and automation

• Who ?
• Low- and semi- skilled employees
• What?
• Job labor v.s.
• machine

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contd

• Which jobs?
• traditional men jobs
• Operations, i.e.
• container/ machines v.s. less dockworkers
• cranes/ forklift trucks v.s. manpower

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• women jobs
• administration, i.e.
• the computer has displaced women working in
  office
• eventually technological advances and automation
  leads to unemployment.

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How to avoid women becoming displaced and
unemployed

• Empowering women
• Education
• Training/ retraining
• New opportunity traditional men jobs.

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Efforts

• UN
• IMO
• Women in Development Programme (1989)
• ILO
• Dock Work Convention and Recommendation
  concerning the Social Repercussions of New
  Methods of Cargo Handling in Docks

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The Surinamese Perspective

• Surinamese women participation in Maritime
  programmes
• IMO Women In Development Programme (2)
• OAS (1)

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Suriname Port Management Company

• State owned
• Union
• Barrier low-/ semi skilled personnel

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Women employment

• In the port management company
• 1971 0 women
• Technical/ operations
• Now 45 women out of 170 ( 26. 47 )
• 5 in technical/ operations
• In technical training 1 (Belgium)
• Port related
• port state control officer 1
• In training 2 pilots.

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contd

• In the port community (highly educated)
• 2008 1st Managing director shipping
  administration, stevedoring and trucking company,
  terminal operator
• In the port related institutions
• Port state control (1)
• Pilots in training (2).

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Conclusions

• Women are the most vulnerable in the division of
  labor
• Education and training is the answer to women
  facing technological advances and automation in
  ports