Growing evidence points to gender equality playing a key role in aquatic food systems’ crucial contributions to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Despite recent progress in advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment, inequity and barriers still remain in most parts of the world. In a recent strategic brief under the auspices of CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH), WorldFish’s gender scientists proposed four pathways to achieve gender equality and increase women’s empowerment in aquatic food systems.