Women in Small Scale Fisheries in Malaysia

IN THE PAST the significant contribution of women in sustaining the socioeconomic well-being of their families has been neglected or taken for granted. This has resulted not only in gross underestimation of women's economic contribution but also in the underutilization of their tremendeous economic potential. In recent years, however, there has been considerable concern about the need to acknowledge and stimulate women's economic contribution and participation in development. 
    The United Nations Declaration of the International Decade of Women in 1975 has only served to enhance this concern and awareness as manifested by the profileration of research projects and studies on women's role in the development. The central issue raised by the majority of these studies is that stimulating women's economic participation does not merely imply integrating them into current development mainstream, but more importantly, reorientating the male bias of dominant development concepts and strategies. Fundamental to this reorientation, therefore, is an indepth knowledge and understanding of the changing roles of women.

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