This paper synthesizes current empirical evidence on how women experience, shape and influence small-scale fisheries (SSF) governance. Our synthesis addresses an important gap in the literature, and helps highlight the opportunities to improve women's participation in governance and advance gender equality. We identified, characterized and synthesized 54 empirical cases at the intersection of gender and SSF governance, which comprise the relevant body of literature. Our review confirms the need to embed gender in the empirical examination of SSF governance towards expanding the current evidence base on this topic. We found that the institutional contexts within which women participate reflect a broad spectrum of arrangements, including the interactions with rules and regulations; participatory arrangements such as co-management; and informal norms, customary practices and relational spaces. We also synthesized a typology of governance tasks performed by women in SSF. The typology includes leadership roles and active participation in decision-making; relational networking and collective action; exercising agency and legitimacy; resource monitoring; knowledge sharing; meeting attendance (with no/less participation in decision-making); and activism and mass mobilization. Furthermore, we drew broader insights based on the patterns that emerged across the literature and highlighted implications for improving women's meaningful participation in SSF governance. For example, exploring the breadth of governance arrangements to include all governance spaces where women are active, adjusting governance arrangements to respond to current and emerging barriers, and recognizing how women's efforts link with societal values may help legitimize their representation in SSF governance. Findings of this review should be of interest to the scholarly community, practitioners and policymakers alike and inform future research agendas, policy dialogues and practice intervention.

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妇女在影响和塑造小规模渔业治理方面的经验

本文综合了当前关于女性如何体验、塑造和影响小规模渔业 (SSF) 治理的经验证据。我们的综合解决了文献中的一个重要空白，并有助于突出改善妇女参与治理和促进性别平等的机会。我们确定、表征和综合了 54 个性别与 SSF 治理交叉点的经验案例，这些案例构成了相关的文献。我们的审查证实有必要将性别纳入 SSF 治理的实证检验，以扩大目前关于该主题的证据基础。我们发现，女性参与的制度环境反映了广泛的安排，包括与规则和法规的相互作用；参与式安排，例如共同管理；以及非正式规范、习惯做法和关系空间。我们还综合了 SSF 中女性执行的治理任务的类型。类型包括领导角色和积极参与决策；关系网络和集体行动；行使代理权和合法性；资源监控；知识共享; 出席会议（不参与/少参与决策）；以及激进主义和群众动员。此外，我们根据文献中出现的模式得出了更广泛的见解，并强调了对提高女性有意义地参与 SSF 治理的意义。例如，探索治理安排的广度以包括女性活跃的所有治理空间，调整治理安排以应对当前和新出现的障碍，并认识到女性的努力如何与社会价值观联系起来可能有助于使她们在 SSF 治理中的代表权合法化。本次审查的结果应该引起学术界、从业者和政策制定者的兴趣，并为未来的研究议程、政策对话和实践干预提供信息。