Women of Fishing Communities in West Bengal

Women’s contribution in the fishing economy is countless but still they are not in the limelight. They are underestimated that relegates to lower payment and lower jobs. Even they are not counted as fisher women because fishing related tasks are itself gender biased and the persons who are involved in that particular tasks called ‘fishermen’. The present book tries to bridge the gaps by focusing on one of the small fishing clans named Jelepara located at the bank of river Hooghly under Hooghly-Chinsurah municipality in Hooghly District of West Bengal. An attempt has been made in this book to examine the condition of women in Jelepara under Hooghly Chinsurah Municipality of Hooghly district through case study and mixed participatory observation method to know the level of marginalization and the role of public action in eradicating the exclusion as marginalisation of women in society. The present study aims to build a strong support of Govt. and society towards women from fishing communities for removing their marginalised status and poverty. An effort has been made to identify challenges and present possible measures to overcome the problems for sustainable bright future.