to Lucas (2012) that satisfaction is a person‟s emotions of pleasure or
disappointment ensuing from overall performance relation to women‟s expectations.
Thus, others have found that individual satisfaction is generally found to be
correlated with relative income (Boyce et al., 2010; Clark et al., 2008; Tella &
MacCulloch, 2006), meaning the level of income relative to others or how that
income has changed relative to others. Finally, women fisher folk they felt happy
when they expect more income relatively happened.
And, one of the participants in K I I revealed and described her personal
experience:
“Importante jud siya sir kay kung walay dagat dili man pud kabalo
mangkuan ang akong bana ug laing trabaho. Dagat ra man gyud
iyang nahibal-an.. kuan mukoyog man gud siya anang labor-labor.
Dili man gud na siya ganahan anang naay amo. Gusto niya siyay
nagat, siyay kuan.. ana ba..walay makaboot sa iyahang oras. Unya
mas kuan pud ang income weather-weather pud ang iyang income
sa panagat ba.. kay usahay alas syete pa sa buntag naa na kay four
hundred,lipay na kaayu ko og five hundred samantalang
nagkonstruksyon pildi jud siya.
(It is very important because if there is no sea, my husband don’t know
other work. He only knows the sea… he tag along with labor works but
he don’t like having a boss. He wants to go fishing... like that… no one
will control his hours. Also, his income is inconsistent with doing fishing.
Sometimes at seven am in the morning, he has four hundred, I am
happy with five hundred while as construction worker he is at loss)”.
Other participants said that:
“Dili man gud nang panagat na naay kuha sir. Usahay zero. Pareha
karon, wala nanagat akong bana. Wala gyud. Zero. Mao nang naga
sideline ra jud ko sir sa amo. Diskarte ba”.
(Fishing don’t constantly have catch. Sometime zero. Like now, my
husband didn’t go fishing. None. Zero. That’s why I do sidelines to boss.
Strategy”.
One of the participants said that the importance of water as a
source of income:
Yes sir ...dako kayo jud og pakinabang ang tubig sa mangngisda
sir. Dako gyud kaayo sir. Kay ngano? Kailangan man gud nato ang
tubig matag adlaw sir. Tas kung mangisdaay for example akong