women in maritime

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand’s Defence Minister on Thursday publicly criticized online trolling of the female captain of a

Maersk’s ‘Equal At Sea’ Initiative Achieves 45% Women Cadets in India A.P. Moller – Maersk has made significant progress in gender

By Phil Stewart and Steve Holland WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Friday nominated Admiral Lisa Franchetti to lead

The United Nations’ International Maritime Organization (IMO) has today commemorated its second International Day for Women in Maritime. The day, marked

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is making a little bit of history this week with what is believed to be the first all-female crew involved the space recovery

By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) — People often want to take photos of Taalke Middents on the container vessels she helps helm through ports and passages

Cal Maritime has appointed its first female Captain of its training ship, TS Golden Bear. California State University Maritime Academy announced this week that

In a year in which much attention is rightly being paid to improving the shipboard workplace environment for women, it’s easy to lose sight of the many

Today marks the first International Day for Women in Maritime, meant to highlight and celebrate the role of women in the historically a male-dominated maritime

A couple of firsts for the U.S. Navy this week. For the first time in its 224-year history, the USS Constitution will have its first female Commanding Officer.

The UN International Maritime Organization has adopted a resolution to designate May 18th as International Day for Women in Maritime. The resolution was

While the benefits of cultivating workplace diversity are tangible, the obstacles to doing so are less obvious and more important, and some kinds of companies

The UN International Maritime Organization (IMO) will establish an International Day for Women in Maritime, a move some say has been a long time coming. The

Women aiming for successful careers in maritime should be more courageous, not worry about failure and expect to be seen as equals, a senior shipping executive

By Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — The chairman of A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, Jim Hagemann Snabe, says it’s proving difficult to get enough women to

The International Maritime Rescue Federation (IMRF) has released the results of the first survey to examine the representation of women across the maritime

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA International) have launched an

Women make up just 7.5 percent of the world’s seafarers, according to a first-of-its-kind report looking into diversity within the shipping industry. The

This week, female cadets at maritime academies across the United States will join over 200 paid participants attending a virtual conference organized to

The Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA) is entering into a partnership with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to