Perspective of a disabled women for a inclusive
Perspective of a disabled women for a inclusive society Hyo Jin Kim, Representative of Disable Women’s Network
Politics of difference Discrimination Class Gender Category Disability Difference Power of hierarchy applices
Difference of a disabled women q q q Disabled Women have sextuple chances of giving up school education midway or not even able to start the school education compared to men with disability. Serious imbalance from the level of education limits disabled women from any school or community events. Economic activity of disabled women is 23. 9%, and employment rate is 22. 4%, which are less than half of the rates of disabled men. Moreover, from economically inactive population, 80. 9% are disabled women, which is much higher than disabled men(62. 1%)(The Study of Economic Activities for Disabled Person, 2017).
Social status of disabled women Nondisabled, Men with disability - Decision-maker - Manager - Host - Hands-on staff - Customer - Assistance Women with disabioity
Discriminations that Black gays experienced q Racism from their skin color q Sexual discrimination due to their sexuality q Double discrimination from both racisim and sexual discrimination q Unexplainable and unique discrimination to Black gays from a combination of racism and sexual discrimination
Discriminations that disabled women experienced q Discrminiation against disabilities from their disabilities q Sexual discrimination due to their gender q Double discrimination when they go through those two discriminations concurrently q Unexplainable and unique discrimination to women with disability from combination of sexual and disability
Theory of intersectionality by Collins Interaction, Correlation Disability Sexuality Class, etc
Perspective of a disabled woman Position or perspective of disabled women when they observe any objects or phenomenon. q Dominant perspective of non-disabled towards to anything that relates to disabled women, and perspective that is needed to think a whole different idea and deconstruct the recognition of disability discrimination q
Disability recognition Perspectives of disabled women Sex recognition
Need to change perspective to see better
Necessity of disability sensitivity Criminality of abortion that violates selfdetermination of pregnant women q Mother and Child Health Law : a clause that allows abortion of women with disability q Compulsory sterilization without permission of women with disability q Labeling effect that makes non-disabled to see people with disability as inferior q
Necessity of gender sensitivity People with disability who got hired through mandatory quota system for disabled. Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, 2014
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