PERCEPTIONS OF FEMALE UNIKL MIMET STUDENT ON BECOMING A SEAFARER

Abstract

The number of women participation in maritime field has been maintained with the same percentage for every year. By the latest news, there are only 3% of women participation in maritime field especially the seafaring profession. Afterall there have been many initiatives done by the maritime bodies, institutes, and other related parties to increase the number of participation of women in seafaring profession. This research are about the perceptions that drawn by the female gender regarding the idea of choosing a seafaring profession as a career. Due to the research, several potential factors has been listed to analyse the perceptions drawn by the female gender. There are two objectives in the research and two research questions which answer each research objectives. For research objectives, the researcher want to identify the perceptions of female UniKL MIMET student on becoming a seafarer and the factors that influenced the perceptions of the female UniKL MIMET student on becoming a seafarer. Meanwhile, for the research questions, it will be about what are the perceptions of female UniKL MIMET student regarding their future career path in maritime industry especially in seafaring profession and also the factors that give such impact towards the female UniKL MIMET student to work on board. Basically, both research objectives are achieved by conducting survey and compute the data using the SPSS system to get the data analysis. There are factors such as personal character, company’s perspective, educations support, and organization’s effort and in terms of safety.