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The perception of publics toward female involvement in maritime industry
Nursyafika Binti Suhaimi
Dr. Mohd Saiful Izwaan Bin Saadon
Bachelor of Management (Maritime)
School of Maritime Business and Management
This research is about the perception of public toward female involvement in maritime
industry at Malaysia. Currently, women represent an increasing share of the world's
labour force. Gender diversity is interventions not based on the appearance that women
have been promoted unfairly. This study is to attract more female joining the career in
maritime industry such as career in seafarer. This study also will benefit to target
graduated university student especially females who are major in maritime study to
involve in maritime industry. Female that involvement in this industry especially in
seafarer represents a very small percentage of the world's maritime workforce than male.
This research purposed to use mixed methods such as quantitative and qualitative
methods. Methods design can be on either or both of the perspectives of publics. Lastly,
this research can classify the factor that contributed to the discrimination among female
in maritime industry.
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