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Career barriers: Shipping lines reluctant to hire women seafarers

Women comprise only two per cent of cadres employed as cadets, officers and captains (Shutterstock)

Most shipping lines are reluctant to hire women seafarers even as demand for such cadres grow in the shipping industry.

That is according to a new survey analysing trends in the industry, as well as revelations made during interviews with trained women seafarers.

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