FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Rheumatoid Arthritis, Invisible Disability, Schizophrenia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 1100
• Professor: Shoshana Magnet

Document Summary

30% of canadians have a disability the largest minority group in canada. 53% of all people with disabilities in canada are women. 8% of women with disabilities live on less than ,000 per year. Of those, 23% live on less than ,000 per year the unemployment rate among with women with disabilities is 75% Women and children with disabilities are twice as likely to be victims of violence than non-disabled women, women and children with multiple disabilities experience even higher rates of violence. Across canada, few rape crisis centres and transition houses are accessible to women with all kinds of disabilities. This highlights that any of us could become disabled at any time. Ex: criminal minds episodes (criminalizing down syndrome, A stereotypical ideology of what an able bodied and non able bodied woman should look like. The most wanted goal for children is to be independent and break away from their parents.