The Bahamas Maritime Authority (BMA) reported that despite the COVID-19 impact on the shipping industry, they saw an increase on the female cadets that signed up for the BMA’s programme.
Specifically, BMA notes that the number of females joining the corps underlines the success of World Maritime Day 2019’s theme of ‘Empowering Women in the Maritime Community’. The split to date in students enrolling for the 2020/2022 course stands at 65% female and 35% male.
It is also clear evidence that the United Nations Substainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 – Gender Equality (Achieve Gender Equality and Empower all Women and Girls) – is gaining traction in The Bahamas.
And it is not simply the quantity of girls that is significant, as five of the top seven cadets of the 2019/2020 intake were female, spread across both the deck and engineering competence,
… BMA adds.
BMA Managing Director and CEO, Captain Dwain Hutchinson, highlighted MBA’s goal concerning Corporate Social Responsibility and The Bahamas Maritime Cadet Corps (BMCC), and expressed his admiration on seeing female students signing up in high numbers and are more than demonstrating their competence and capability to be employed in this sector.