France: A resolute mussel farmer
Amélie Dennebouy has challenged gender stereotypes to become a successful mussel entrepreneur in Pénestin, France. “ We don’t employ women!” Just how many times Amélie Dennebouy, a mussel farm worker, heard that phrase since she began working in the sector at age 17, it would be impossible to say. “Ten years ago, I realised that it would be difficult to find employment in the production segment because I am a woman,” says Amélie. Stories flood her mind: managers laughing at her when she handed in an application for work as a production worker, pushing her to the sales department instead; the crude questioning of some: “Have you passed under the desk?”
Title of publication: Yemaya ICSF's Newsletter on Gender and Fisheries
Issue: 61
Nombre de pages: 5
Auteur: Julie Lallouët-Geffroy
Organisation: The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Année: 2020
Pays: France
Type: Article du bulletin d’information
Texte intégral disponible à l'adresse: https://www.icsf.net/images/yemaya/pdf/english/issue_61/2354_art_Yemaya_61_BOX_A%20resolute%20mussel%20farmer.pdf
Langue: English