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Challenges of Women in Ports in the 21st Century: Facing Technological Advances

This seminar explores the effects of globalization and technological advances on women in ports. It discusses the displacement of women in traditional jobs and suggests empowering women through education and training to avoid unemployment. Efforts made by organizations like UN, IMO, and ILO are highlighted, along with the Surinamese perspective. The current participation of women in the port management company and related institutions is discussed, emphasizing the need for education and training to support women in facing technological advances and automation in ports.

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Challenges of Women in Ports in the 21st Century: Facing Technological Advances

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  1. HEMISPHERIC SEMINAR: CHALLENGES OF THE WOMAN IN PORTS IN THE XXI CENTURY Women facing technological advances and automation in ports

  2. 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).

  3. Effects of technological advances and automation • Who ? • Low- and semi- skilled employees; • What? • Job: labor v.s. machine

  4. cont`d • Which jobs? • “traditional men jobs” • Operations, i.e. : • container/ machines v.s. less dockworkers; • cranes/ forklift trucks v.s. manpower;

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

  6. How to avoid women becoming displaced and unemployed • Empowering women: • Education; • Training/ retraining; • New opportunity: “traditional men jobs”.

  7. 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;

  8. The Surinamese Perspective • Surinamese women participation in Maritime programmes: • IMO Women In Development Programme (2); • OAS (1);

  9. Suriname Port Management Company • State owned; • Union; • Barrier: low-/ semi skilled personnel;

  10. 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.

  11. 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).

  12. 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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