Throughout the world, women of fishing communities play a central role in the fisheries and in maintaining the social fabric. However, they remain largely invisible, and their roles largely undocumented. Policy interventions meant to support them have been few and far between, contributing to their systematic marginalization within the fisheries sector. Where women have claimed spaces in organizations and processes, they have brought in a perspective that prioritizes improving the quality of life and fisheries-based livelihoods. For these women, life is the goal, not fishing, as this dossier of articles from India, Fiji, Peru, Bangladesh, Chile and Fogo Islands reveals.