Status of Disabled Women in Employment - Project of Tejas

Hi All,

Tejas a Self Advocacy Group of Disabled Women a part of Disability Legislation Unit, South is conducting a research on the Status of disabled Women in Employment in Tamil Nadu.

We have taken a sample of five districts in Tamil Nadu, administered a survey. We have got the survey questionnaires back from four districts. We have done a preliminary analysis of three of the districts. In two of them we felt that, as far as employment is concerned discrimination is happening for women and not because of disability or for disabled women. The basic difference lies in the Marital status of disabled and non disabled women in all the three districts, though of course, this is not our basic factor for research. In one of the districts we found there is a lag in education among the disabled women. This is only an initial remark. Hopefully by the end of this month we will finish this research.

May be we will have a question Is it true that Disabled Women are doubly discriminated???

Meenakshi.B