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Feb 14, 2024 · Workforce participation for people with disabilities has risen alongside an upswing in the wider U.S. population identified in BLS data as disabled, driven experts say by increased...
2 days ago · Twenty-five years later, nothing about us without us remains an empowering mantra of the disability community, expressing the conviction of people with disabilities that they know what is best for them, whether it be programs, policy, or research.
Aug 24, 2022 · Kelble and Nicole Spencer, a medical student who also lives with EDS, are among a number of young people using social media to fight misperceptions of disabilities and talk frankly about their...
- Principle of Non-Discrimination
- When Just Not Discriminating Won’T Cut It
- True Equality, That ‘Most Difficult Problem’
As I have written in my latest book, understanding how both women and people with disabilities – not to mention people of colour, immigrants and other minority groups – are invisibly constrained requires understanding the difference between legal equality and real equality. In liberal democracies, citizens have the right to equal treatment under th...
But sometimes a government may actually end up creating or perpetuating inequalities among groups by complying strictly to the principles of equality and non-discrimination. Take, for example, the original case of Argentina’s judiciary gender gap. No law says women cannot become lawyers, or be appointed as judges, and yet the facts strongly suggest...
The urgent necessity of such policies for historically marginalised groups was made most eloquently by US Supreme Court Justice William Brennan in the 1982 in Plyler v Doe, which struck down a statute that allowed schools to deny admission to undocumented immigrant children. In the judgement, Justice Brennan wrote of structural inequality that: Bre...
- 13.7 per cent of Canadians live with a disability. According to the Canadian Survey on Disability released today by Statistics Canada, about 3.8 million working-age Canadians (aged 15 to 64) self-identified as disabled in 2012.
- Disabilities aren't always so obvious. The 10 disability types idenfitied in the latest Canadian Survey on Disability study are: seeing, hearing, mobility, flexibility, dexterity, pain, learning, developmental, mental/psychological, and memory.
- There's a real education gap. Proportionately, adults with disabilities were only about half as likely to get their university-level degrees as adults without disabilities, according to the Canadian Human Rights Commission (20.2 per cent vs. 40.7 per cent, respectively).
- There are significant wage gaps, too. Adults with disabilities generally have lower median household incomes than adults without disabilities, according to a 2012 CRHC report.
2 days ago · "Project 2025 would drag the disability community backward and make it even harder for them to live safe, full and independent lives," said Tammy Duckworth.
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Jan 30, 2024 · The Employer Assistance and Resource Network on Disability Inclusion (EARN) teaches employers how to recruit, hire, retain and advance people with disabilities. Organizations that are led by...
