Seeing women trainees in a male dominated training center for seafarers make oneself think that women are now in equal footing with men. Female crews can be seen in every luxury ships or passenger vessels sailing in the different parts of the world. But before they could have a promising job onboard ships, female crews undergoes the same training that men usually take as seafarers.
Women trainees are required to take Basic Safety Training like; Personal Survival Techniques, Fire Prevention and Fire Fighting, Elementary First Aid and Personal Safety and Social Responsibility. Thus, upon completing the IMO requirement, women trainees are now ready to face the briny world as seafarers.
But behind the excitement and challenges as trainees, women however experience some kind of insult, sexism, stereotype and mischievous conduct from their male counterpart which usually act as a dominant factor in treating women as sex object. In that case, women are forced unnecessarily to play the game of their naughty male counterpart.
This kind of system is downgrading to women. And women should be taught on how to conduct their selves in a male dominated training centers. Seafarers’ training is really a tough act for women trainees looking for a promising job as seafarers.
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