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?”
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| Format: | article biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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| Subjects: | Environment, Fisheries, ICSF, Yemaya, women in fisheries, small scale fisheries, gender, France, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/41296 |
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