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Getting to know reality and breaking stereotypes: the experience of two generations of working disabled women
- Author:
- LOPEZ GONZALEZ Maria
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 24(4), June 2009, pp.447-459.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper sets out the results of a Spanish study of the experience and meaning of work among disabled women of two generations, with three types of disability (physical, visual and hearing). Performing a socially recognised activity such as a job is a source of emotional welfare and self-esteem. Moreover, it confers a certain social status. For the participants in this study the kind of work involved, whether productive, paid and 'extra-domestic' or 'reproductive', unpaid and done at home, acquires different meanings, since for disabled women, sexist stereotypes - already more or less accentuated in the culture - social attitudes towards disability and personal factors introduce relevant differences, while leading to conflicts and dilemmas that these women have to solve. At any rate, their sense of responsibility in performing all types of work should be emphasised as evidence of their sense of independence and personal competence, forming a keystone in their construction of a sense of identity and social integration.
Disabled for life?: attitudes towards, and experiences of, disability in Britain
- Authors:
- GREWAL Ini, et al
- Publisher:
- Corporate Document Services; Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 264p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
The aims of the research were to provide a picture of work and daily activities of disabled people, compared with non-disabled people, and to examine general attitudes to disability. The study also sought to examine peoples experience of their disability, including discrimination and prejudice, across a range of different areas of life. The research was commissioned to inform the Governments policies to promote equality by helping disabled people overcome the barriers which may exclude them from learning, employment and other aspects of society.
Courtesy stigma and the ADA: an analysis of third-party discrimination
- Authors:
- O'BRIEN Gerald V., REYNOLDS Christina
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2(4), 2003, pp.65-79.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
A seldom-discussed element of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 provides a degree of employment protection to the relatives and close associates of persons with disabilities, if these relatives or associates have been subject to adverse employment action because of this relationship. This paper describes this “third-party discrimination,” and analyzes important court cases related to it. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Ready, willing and disabled
- Authors:
- DAONE Liz, SCOTT Ruth
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 64p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Despite the many government schemes aimed at helping disabled people into employment, disabled people are still five times more likely than non-disabled people to be out of work and claiming benefits. The survey aimed to find out how employers and employees really feel about employing and working with disabled people and to see whether people’s attitudes and opinions are influenced by common stereotypes and generalisations about disabled people and their abilities. The survey asked about the recruitment process, the accessibility of business premises, health and safety regulations, the financial implications of employing a disabled person, people’s knowledge of disability issues, the attitudes of staff and customers towards disabled employees and people’s perceptions of disabled people at work.
What disability civil rights cannot do: employment and political economy
- Author:
- RUSSELL Marta
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(2), March 2002, pp.117-135.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The Americans with Disabilities Act is both a liberal civil rights bill and a labour economics bill meant to increase the employment of disabled persons. It identifies the source of unemployment in discriminatory attitudes of employers and physical barriers in the work environment, and promotes inclusion through the establishment of regulations that are intended to create 'equal opportunity' in the labour market. Such liberal reforms primarily focus on 'irrational' discriminatory attitudes. Operating within an individualist framework, civil rights have not given sufficient attention to structural barriers, which 'rational' business practices, the economic system and class power relationships erect. This paper will both micro- and macro-economic realities of US capitalism, which directly impede disabled peoples' employment and perpetuate a disabling society. The failure of rights legislation to increase disabled people's employment exposes the contradictions of promoting equal opportunity in a class-based (unequal) society.
Patterns of disability and norms of participation through the life course: empirical support for a social model of disability
- Author:
- SIMINSKI Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(6), October 2003, pp.707-718.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
An attempt has been made in this article to empirically demonstrate the social derivation of disability using quantitative data, framed around the medical model. It would seem that people who are not convinced of the social derivation of disability, are likely to be influenced by findings made in such data. The term 'social derivation' is used to encompass both social construction and creation. The approach taken was to focus on one aspect of the social derivation of disability--investigating how the patterns of 'disabling conditions' vary over the course of life, specifically the schooling, working and retirement age. The observed patterns are not consistent with a medical model of disability that ignores social factors. Instead, the patterns are linked to social forces, both attitudinal and material. Socially-determined norms of participation, which vary between the life phases, seem to be a key determinant of the observed patterns of disability.
Learning difficulties and ethnicity
- Authors:
- MIR Ghazal, NOCON Andrew, AHMAD Waqar
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 76p.,bibiog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Minority ethnic communities face substantial inequalities and discrimination in employment, education, health and social services. People with learning difficulties from minority ethnic communities experience simultaneous disadvantage in relation to race, impairment and for women, gender. Negative stereotypes and attitudes held by service professionals contribute to the disadvantage they face.
Learning difficulties and ethnicity:summary version
- Authors:
- MIR Ghazal, NOCON Andrew, AHMAD Waqar
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 9p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Minority ethnic communities face substantial inequalities and discrimination in employment, education, health and social services. People with learning difficulties from minority ethnic communities experience simultaneous disadvantage in relation to race, impairment and for women, gender. Negative stereotypes and attitudes held by service professionals contribute to the disadvantage they face.
Visual handicap: the consumer and the professional
- Author:
- DUDLEY Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Social Action, 3(1), 1996, pp.2-4.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
Gives a personal insight into the problems facing those with a visual handicap and other disabilities when using health and social services. Argues that people with disabilities should play a greater role in the training of professional staff working within health and social services and should also be given the opportunity to work within these services themselves.