An approach to the socio-labour situation of disabled women in rural communities in a Spanish region

Disabled women suffer socio-labour discrimination because of both their gender and their disability. The situation is gradually improving, thanks to the national and supranational organisations, which in the past few decades have made considerable progress in improving the legislation, providing fin...

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Veröffentlicht in:Disability and rehabilitation 2009, Vol.31 (16), p.1328-1337
Hauptverfasser: Mondéjar-Jiménez, José, Vargas-Vargas, Manuel, Mondéjar-Jiménez, Juan-Antonio, Bayot-Mestre, Agustín
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Zusammenfassung:Disabled women suffer socio-labour discrimination because of both their gender and their disability. The situation is gradually improving, thanks to the national and supranational organisations, which in the past few decades have made considerable progress in improving the legislation, providing financial resources and encouraging social awareness. Despite this, few studies quantify this double discrimination in order to permit the evaluation of the socio-labour situation of this group of people. This scarcity is even more pronounced for rural areas, where many other factors hinder the integration of disabled women into the labour market and generate some specific problems that the specialist literature seldom addresses. The current work presents the results of a survey on the socio-economic situation of disabled women in a strongly rural area: the Spanish region of Castilla-La Mancha. It stresses the fundamental difficulties of these women in integrating into the labour market and the most urgent political measures needed to help this group.
ISSN:0963-8288
1464-5165
DOI:10.1080/09638280802658350