ABSTRACT

The distinctive feature of maritime is that it carried out in an international environment involving multidisciplinary knowledge. This distinctive feature is include challenging conditions on maritime education and business life. Compared to other sectors, the effects of these conditions are felt more intensely on women. As in many countries of the world, practical applications in the maritime sector in Turkey bears the traces of gender discrimination and prejudices. The discourses based discrimination and prejudice as “this is a profession for men, women are not suitable for this profession and they bring bad luck to the ship” leads to women move away from this profession. Furthermore, this perception is importance decisive on their overall performance In this study attempted to be determined the perceptions of gender discrimination and prejudice of students attending in higher education of maritime in Turkey with an empirical case in Kocaeli University, Barbaros Maritime School. The study is going to use the survey technique for gathering the proper data.