Women fishers and/or fishworkers play an important role in the small-scale fisheries production of different countries, intended for market and/or consumption, but because they are linked to pre and post-capture tasks, considered peripheral, are excluded from the public policies and ignored as agents of the fishing productive sector (Alonso-Población et al 2016; Leitão, 2012).
The lack of statistics reinforces the invisibility (Bennet, 2005; Weeratunge et al 2010) and the recognition of its role in this sector (Frangoudes et al. 2008; Alencar 2014; Lentisco e Lee 2014).
The Panel intends to bring together researchers who conduct studies on inland and coastal fisheries, and to initiate a reflection on the roles of women in these activity, based on the following themes: market access strategies and social rights; factors of change in the productive process; collective organizations and access to the spaces of power and decision making; forms of resistance and political mobilization for defend the rights to live and work in the fishing territories; governance actions for management of territories and fishing resources; local alternatives and/or models for management of natural resources and to promote sustainable fisheries with the women participation; community food security; climate change and its effects on women´s fishing activities; migrations and implementation actions of the Voluntary Guidelines for Small Scale Fisheries (FAO, 2014).