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 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.
Mondéjar-Jiménez
José
J
Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Statistics, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain. jose.mondejar@uclm.es
Vargas-Vargas
Manuel
M
Mondéjar-Jiménez
Juan-Antonio
JA
Bayot-Mestre
Agustín
A
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004522:Educational Status; D004651:Employment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012923:Social Class; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult