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HEMISPHERIC SEMINAR: CHALLENGES OF THE WOMAN
IN PORTS IN THE XXI CENTURY
Women facing technological advances and automation in ports
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).
Effects of technological advances and automation
• Who ?– Low- and semi- skilled
employees;
• What?– Job: labor v.s.
machine
cont`d
• Which jobs?– “traditional men jobs”
• Operations, i.e. :– container/ machines
v.s. less dockworkers;
– cranes/ forklift trucks v.s. manpower;
– “women jobs”• administration, i.e.:
– the computer has displaced women working in office;
– eventually technological advances and automation leads to unemployment.
How to avoid women becoming displaced and unemployed
• Empowering women: – Education;– Training/ retraining;
• New opportunity: “traditional men jobs”.
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;
The Surinamese Perspective
• Surinamese women participation in Maritime programmes: – IMO Women In
Development Programme (2);
– OAS (1);
Suriname Port Management Company
• State owned;• Union;• Barrier: low-/ semi
skilled personnel;
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.
cont’d
• 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).
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;
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