Data for “Men Don’t Feel Comfortable with Successful Female Leaders”: Exploring Participatory Exclusion in Community-based Fisheries Management, South Coast of Kenya

This data supports the study titled "“Men Don’t Feel Comfortable with Successful Female Leaders”: Exploring Participatory Exclusion in Community-based Fisheries Management, South Coast of Kenya " published in Maritime Studies. This study draws on literature on participatory exclusion, intersectionality and lived experiences, to examine gender-inclusiveness in community-based fishery management through a case study on the South Coast of Kenya. For this study, the authors combined qualitative data collection methods, including participant observation, semi-structured interviews (SSI) (n=18), focus group discussions (FGD) (n=6) and relief maps (n= 32), with secondary data on Beach Management Unit (BMU) governance.More specifically, this data set provides the information derived from primary (i.e., participant observation, SSI, FGD) and secondary data that was used to calculate the gender ratios of the main BMU governance bodies (i.e., general assembly, executive committee, and board) for community 1 (C1), community 2 (C2) comprising settlements 1 (S1) et 2 (S2) , and community 3 (C3). Cases where the two-thirds gender principle was not respected (i.e., less than 33% of women represented in a given elective body) are also indicated. In addition, this data set was used to assess women’s and men’s participation levels in community-based fisheries management for each of the studied communities.