Impact of social factors on labour discrimination of disabled women

Res Dev Disabil. 2009 Nov-Dec;30(6):1115-23. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2009.07.013. Epub 2009 Aug 18.

Abstract

Disabled women suffer from a double labour discrimination due to their gender and their disability. In rural areas, in addition, they also suffer from a lack of specific services, the isolation of the disabled associations, problems with public transport, the dispersion of population centres, and a limited access to information that could improve their chances of entering the labour market. The current work adopts a constructivist perspective on disability and offers a preliminary examination of the influence of social factors, such as the rural or urban nature of the disabled women's place of residence, the assistance they receive from their family or outside the family, the quantity of information they receive about the labour market, and their educational level, on the activity and employment status of this group of people.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Demography
  • Disabled Persons*
  • Employment
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Prejudice
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Women
  • Women's Rights*