Psychological Issues and Challenges of Women Fish Vendors

Abstract

Fishing is the one of the major economic activity of the human from the beginning of the civilization. Women are supporting the men in fishing activity by vending it in the market place.        Nowhere in the history of human civilization men and women treated different and assigned different social status. Women were struggled to lead a life exactly on par with men in spite of their urge for equality. Majority of the women were   identified as only as daughters, wives, and mothers or as family members and not as a independent individuals to shape their life by own. Hence, women are still regarded as belonging to ‘the weaker section of the society and dominated by their close men’s in the society’.  In most countries a women’s status is usually defined in relation to her father or her husband or her brothers and wards. Social traditions and cultural barriers were limits the possibilities for freedom of women movement and equal access to employment and educational opportunities throughout the world by different means. This study tries to access the human rights violations faced by the women fish vending labourers in the Tamil Nadu. The study results revealed that most of the fish vending women are violated in their market place in many aspects and denied their basic human rights. Further, it suggested to conduct more research in the areas of health aspects of fishing women to uplift their life.