The World Report on Disability (World Bank and World Health Organization) estimates there are some 1 billion people with some type of disability in the world, and women outnumber men. In some low- and medium-income countries, women constitute up to three quarters of all persons with disabilities. Between 65% and 70% of these women live in rural areas.
Discrimination faced by women, young women, and girls with disabilities and their exposure to sexual gender based violence and poverty have been recognized in line with the
Convention on Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
Some facts promote specific and unique kinds of discrimination and must be addressed differently. Being an older woman or a girl with disabilities, having a mental disability, being a foreigner, living in a rural setting, or being unemployed, are some of the factors that interact simultaneously and deserve to be addressed differently.
Gender and Disability Intersections:
The intersection between gender and disability, or age and disability, is quite a recent concept. For long time, the feminist movement, preferred to address groups or subgroups of minorities, tackling their issues in a grouped way under the so-called vulnerable groups or in situation of vulnerability or exclusion. In the same sense, it is also true that the disability movement has treated the group of persons with disabilities as a homogeneous group, failing to address specific discrimination that girls and women with disabilities are subject to.
Although some progress has been achieved, structural understanding of intersection between disability and gender (and age) – as well as of the discrimination that drifts – is lightly addressed and even less acknowledged. In that sense, budgetary provision, political commitments and implementation measures, such regulatory and legal frameworks, lack to adequately address the needs and assets of women with disabilities, perpetrating structural inequalities and discrimination.
Geography, income, age, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, and cultural norms, among other factors, remain powerful determinants of a woman’s (and girls) chance at equal rights and opportunities. Discrimination against women with disabilities is not only worse than the ones that affect women without disabilities, but also worse than that of their male peers; this is especially so in rural areas, where matriarchal and primary economic systems, with fewer services and opportunities for this group than in urban environments. However, public policies and studies carried out in the framework of public policies do not take into account such flagrant discrimination.
Among other reasons, it is due because they do not include indicators that bring to light the gender and disability perspectives together. For instance, the lack of access for women and girls with disabilities to gender violence programmes, which often do not address disability related perspectives to ensure equal access to the services. This includes a lack of accessible information, information in languages and means of communication, inaccessible emergency shelter services, among others factors.
A dual approach is needed to overcome this gap in understanding and acknowledge of these specific issues intrinsically linked to gender (and age) and disabilities, which hinges on an awareness of and participation in society. The structuring of ‘social norms’ must be followed by policies and legal harmonization disability- and gender-focused and based on the CRPD. Furthermore, economic opportunities should include gender perspective in human capital, time use, access to assets, productive inputs and markets, as well as differences in legal and regulatory frameworks and social norms.
In addition, indicators on gender (or age) and disabilities should be adopted in order to measure real living conditions and support needed for women and girls with disabilities.
By Mildred Omino
Women and Realities of Disability Society
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