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About 36 million women in the U.S. have disabilities – and the number is growing. About 44% of those aged 65 years or older are living with a disability. 1 The most common cause of disability for women is arthritis or rheumatism. 2.
Women with disabilities are at least two to three times more likely than other women to experience violence, including by family, intimate partners, caregivers, and institutional facilities [5].
Despite significant gains across multiple sectors of American society, disabled women still face worse employment outcomes than men with disabilities. Out of approximately 10 million working-age women with disabilities, only 36.1 percent had jobs, compared to an employment rate of 38 percent for 10.7 million working-age disabled men.
Women with disabilities experience various types of impairments—including physical, psychosocial, intellectual, and sensory conditions—that may or may not come with functional limitations.
Women with Disabilities: Challenges, Opportunities, and Role Models in 2021. Washington, D.C., March 8 – As we celebrate Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, it is critical to recognize the unique challenges and critical contributions made by women with disabilities to American society.
Like many women today, women with disabilities are vulnerable to losing vital access to reproductive healthcare, face additional discrimination, and experience wage and employment challenges that require louder voices from the feminist community.
Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Current Population Survey, we examine disability prevalence, education levels, employment and related characteristics, poverty, health insurance coverage and the impact of COVID-19 on the employment of women with disabilities.
Women and girls with disabilities face systemic marginalization and attitudinal and environmental barriers that lead to lower economic and social status; increased risk of violence and abuse, including sexual violence; discrimination as well as harmful gender-based discriminatory practices; and barriers to access education, health care ...
Women and girls with disabilities often face disproportionately high rates of gender-based violence, sexual abuse, neglect, maltreatment and exploitation. Studies show that women and girls with disabilities are twice as likely to experience gender-based violence compared to women and girls without disabilities.
Its two goals were: To upskill and empower women with disabilities, preparing them to bring their unique lens to civic life (e.g., becoming volunteers, board members, or employees for nonprofits and government agencies).