FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Structural Inequality, Fiona Sampson, Subprime Mortgage Crisis

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

Document Summary

Statistics from dawn: about 30% of canadians have a disability the largest minority group in. 53% of all people with disabilities in canada are women: the unemployment rate among women with disabilities is up to 75% 8% of women with disabilities live on less than ,000 per year: of those, 23% live on less than ,000 per year. Gendering disability: accessible cribs, accessible and affordable childcare and other services for mothers with disabilities are virtually non-existent, an abusive father is often considered a better parent than a mother who has a disability. Disability and violence: 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. Deviant : often portrayed as bad or criminal in the media: eg: the lion king.