Challenge Area

Impacts of challenge on gender inequality

Levels of seniority

Over 76 per cent of the women’s workforce operates at administrative, junior and professional level roles, with few reaching managerial levels or higher.

Only 0.17 per cent of women have places on executive leadership teams The greatest challenge for women appears to be the progression from a professional to a senior professional level

Job functions

In technical, marine, safety and quality-related functions, women represent 14 per cent of the workforce.

This was probably linked to the low number of women seafarers moving to onshore positions.

Female employees are found mostly at the junior level with 90 per cent of all other employees being men,

This suggests that there are currently few opportunities for women to progress in such functions.

In chartering functions, women represent 17 per cent of the workforce.

Although the majority remain at the administrative and junior levels, there is better representation at the professional, senior professional and managerial levels.

In commercial functions, women represent 33 per cent of the workforce, with better representation at all levels than in the other categories

Salary

The difference in the average salary of men and women is 45 per cent Countries with the greatest salary differences do not employ any women on executive leadership teams and employ few at the directorial level Except at the junior and administrative levels, men are generally paid more than women