Wives’ Discrimination by Spouse’s Culpability in the Globalised Fisheries Industry: Insights From Public Political Hearing on Mafia Island,Tanzania

Abstract

Globalisation has been lauded for transforming African women’s financial and cultural lives. However, current discourses fail to demonstrate the new hurdles women have to survive in the fishery globalised world. This article uses public political hearing insights, in-depth interviews and focus group discussions to show how Mafia Cooperative women employees in the Mafia region were discriminated against in unprecedented ways. The data were examined thematically. The results show that women’s right to work was based on their marital status and husbands’ behaviour, and not their skills or experience. Such behaviour violates human and workplace rights and should be strongly chastised.

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Globalisation women (wives) discrimination public political hearing Mafia fishing cooperative Tanzania

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