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The Involvement of Woman in Malaysian Seaport at Port Klang: Current
Issue and Advanced Strategies
Rabiatul Adawiyah Binti Abd Majid
Dr. Jagan Jeevan
Bachelor of Management (Maritime)
School of Maritime Business and Management
Involvement of woman in the employment gives advantage to the company because
the character of woman can motivates them self, high self-esteem, full of enthusiasm
on job. The nature of this woman is best to apply in the work environment. In seaport
sector, the gender imbalances happen because of the gap between men and women
in the industry. The exists gender gap that occurs in this industry and the integration
of women into the seaport sector has been at a slow rate because of many reason
and challenges. In traditionally male are dominated in maritime industry where the
woman make up mere2% of the workforce. The purposes of this research are to study
the characters that women have in order to perform in seaport sector and to explore
the obstacles that make it difficult for women to venture into the seaport sector.
Method that will be is exploratory factor analysis. Data collection from questionnaire
survey will support this research analysis and will get result at the end of analysis.
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