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Women in the service industry and informal tourism sectors were the first to be laid off, and the crisis increased the burden of unpaid care work and the risk of domestic violence.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000154#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Market expansion and trade can displace women from traditional ocean-based livelihoods. In East Africa, increased profitability of octopus for export led men to displace women in the fishery. Similarly, in Palau, a harvest rush for sea cucumbers led to men displacing women gleaners.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000154#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Adaptive capacity is strengthened through gender-transformative approaches that engage both men and women to dismantle harmful norms. 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Because beneficiaries are often predefined by governments as licensed fishermen, women processors and vendors risk being excluded.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glorespar-000154#insight-9","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["climate change","blue economy","gender equality","adaptive capacity","intersectionality","Sustainable Development Goals"],"geography_discussed":["World","Fiji","Solomon Islands","Bangladesh","Palau","Haiti","Kiribati","Sierra Leone","Mozambique","Nauru","Comoros","Timor-Leste","Maldives","Seychelles","Saint Kitts and Nevis","Grenada","Aruba","Samoa","Cape Verde","Uganda","Dominica","Senegal","Mauritania","The Gambia","Tanzania","Zanzibar Islands","Zambia","Vietnam","Madagascar","Kenya","Ivory Coast","Papua New Guinea","Cuba","Tonga","Vanuatu","Ethiopia","Malawi","Zimbabwe"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["literature review","case study analysis","policy assessment"]}]}