The Place of Women in a Men’s World from a Maritime University Perspective CORINA POPESCU, ANASTASIA-ELENA VARSAMI Mathematics and Humanities Department, Navigation Department Constanta Maritime University Mircea cel Batran, no. 104 ROMANIA corypopescu25@yahoo.com, anastasia.varsami@yahoo.com Abstract: Because of women’s acceptance on board merchant vessels, their presence in the maritime university area is no longer looked at with scepticism. In the last few years, in Constanta Maritime University one can easily notice that the hardest working students during faculty years were women. This is one of the reasons why the great majority of them distinguished themselves as future lecturers and therefore university’s administration offered them the opportunity to teach various maritime courses. This is why today most of the young assistants in our university are females. In this paper we are trying to show that women represent the new generation of maritime engineering teachers as they are the ones that quit sailing much earlier than men and try to find a proper “lady like” land job. Due to its influence and special status in the city and because of the high number of students, Constanta Maritime University managed to persuade these women to accept teaching both general knowledge and maritime engineering subjects. Key-Words: maritime sector, equal chances, equal opportunities, equal conditions, maritime university, female work force, 1 Introduction Since 1919, the International Labour Organization (ILO) set into motion and developed an international regulation work system focused on increasing men and women chances in obtaining a decent and productive job in freedom, equity, security and dignity conditions regardless the working domain. In the today worldwide economy, the international work regulations are an essential component of the international framework and they have as main purpose to ensure that everybody (men and women) profits from the world economy growth. Due to new technologies, people, goods and money capitals circulate easily and fast between countries determining an interdependent world economic network that everybody on this planet should pay attention to. Globalisation created many possibilities and advantages, while millions of workers and employers all over the world were facing new challenges. Global economy led to dislocation of workers and enterprises, engaging sudden accumulations and migrations of money capitals and in this way causing a financial instability in certain regions. Despite the optimism from the beginning, globalisation did not represent the dawn of a new prosperity era for everybody. The inequalities generate poverty, a productivity decrease, social instability and even conflicts. This is the reason why the international community admitted that fundamental game rules establishment was necessary in the scope of guaranteeing that globalisation gives everybody (men or women) a chance to reach prosperity. 2 Equal conditions for everybody An international legal frame regarding social regulations guarantees for everybody equal conditions for work in the world economy. It helps governments and employers not to give in to the temptation of lowering the working norms in the hope of getting a higher advantage in the international trade. On a long term, such a practice would not be profitable for anybody. Lowering the Latest Trends on ENGINEERING EDUCATION ISSN: 1792-426X 182 ISBN: 978-960-474-202-8