碩士 / 國立臺灣海洋大學 / 商船學系 / 103 / From ancient to modern times and from Eastern to Western countries, the shipping industry has been dominated by male workers. However, things have changed with the elapse of time. At present, along with the gradual automatic operation of ships and boats in the 21st century, the shrinking number of seafares, and the emerging concept of gender equality, female seafarers also work on board, which has resulted in the necessity and inevitability of gender division of labor in seafarers’ workplace.
In 1994, Education system in Taiwan started to admit female students to study navigational courses. In 1998, In 1998, the first female trainning ship-officer appeared on merchant vessel. Admitting female workers to the workplace of seafarers was supposed to alleviate the predicament of insufficient Taiwanese seafarers and a gap of workers in marine work. However, the shipping industry in Taiwan has not fully accepted females to work on board, female seafarers still face dozens of restrictions in the workplace, and shipping companies have yet to accept female seafarers with an open mind.
Such as a paradoxical situation, nevertheless, does not thwart females from participating in seafaring. With an unyielding spirit, females still make themselves into such a masculine workplace, attempting to prove their ability that is not inferior to the ability of their male counterparts. In light of such a situation, this study anticipated to have a glimpse of female workers’ motivation to work on board. Interviewing as a qualitative research technique was employed to analyze perspectives of “female students enrolled in navigational courses”, “current female seafarers”, and “male seafarers”. Further, the four elements: attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction in the ASRC model proposed by Keller (1983) were used as a framework to explore the complete and real work situations of female seafarers, the mentality of female seafarers, and difficulties encountered by female seafarers. Narrations from the male perspective were also adopted in an attempt break away from the convention of gender stereotypes and get an insight into the motivation of female seafarers who work on board.
Research findings revealed females’ strong motivation to work on board, and females are very willing to give it a try and use such an opportunity demonstrate to their abilities even though job openings from shipping companies are more for males rather than females. As revealed by using the ARCS model to analyze female seafarers’ motivation to work on board, “high salaries” make a huge influence. As an opportunity for females to work on board is usually rare and precious, females all particularly value and cherish such an opportunity and aspire to demonstrate their talent on board. Females at the workplace have an imperative need to use their ambition, go-getter motivation, as well as real actions with a passionate last-ditch determination in order to prove their competency for work at sea.
Finally, an in-depth discussion was conducted based on results of this study, and relevant suggestions were proposed to female seafarers, shipping companies, and government departments. Female seafarers, who are already rare minorities, spend the majority of their time at sea due to the unique nature of their work. For that reason, the real scenes of female seafarers’ work and the mentality of female seafarers are usually mysterious. Data collected from interviews in this study appear especially precious, and it is never an easy task to have in-depth explorations of real scenes of female seafarers’ work and female seafarers’ psychological journey and inner motivation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/103NTOU5728003 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Chang, Chi-Chun, 張綺君 |
| Contributors | Guo, Jiunn-Liang, 郭俊良 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 112 |
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