Abstract: In order to promote women's employment in fishing village and the development of fishery economy, based on investigations of women's employment status and its influencing factors in Jinshanzui fishing village, Shanghai, the author used the binary Logit model and conducted empirical analysis concerning 7 factors which included personal factors and family factors. The result showed that: women’ s educational level, whether their children are enrolled in school, whether they support the elderly people in the family, family attitude, and the professions of their husband had significantly positive correlation with the fishing village women's employment, the coefficient were 0.66, 1.57, 1.53, 1.36, 0.95, respectively. Thus, the author put forward the following suggestions: attaching more importance to fishermen's education, improving the basic qualities of fishing village women, encouraging and guiding fishermen to start a business, creating more jobs and perfecting the social security system.