Women and Girls with Disabilities - Using both the Gender and Disability Lens - Gender Perspective on Disability and Disability Perspective on the situation of Women and Girls with Disabilities

Women and Girls with Disabilities - Using both the Gender and Disability Lens - Gender Perspective on Disability and Disability Perspective on the situation of Women and Girls with Disabilities

Women with disabilities face significantly more difficulties - in both public and private spheres - in attaining access to adequate housing, health, education, vocational training and employment, and are more likely to be institutionalized They also experience inequality in hiring, promotion rates and pay for equal work, access to training and retraining, credit and other productive resources, and rarely participate in economic decision making.

Promoting gender equality and empowerment of women is essential to the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals. Women and girls with disabilities experience double discrimination, which places them at higher risk of gender-based violence, sexual abuse, neglect, maltreatment and exploitation. The global literacy rate is as low as one per cent for women with disabilities, according to a UNDP study . The World Bank reports that every minute more than 30 women are seriously injured or disabled during labour and that those 15-50 million women generally go unnoticed.

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