We are witnessing the difficult time women are going through: insecurity, disparity, impunity, devaluation and gaps in all social spheres, reports Animal Politico.
Living with a disability just adds up to those barriers and the results are alarming.
Both factors – gender and disability – generate a double discrimination that, at times, becomes multiple discrimination with other variables that increase the vulnerability of this group (indigenous, migrant, gay) act.
As the last United Nations report on disability says, “women are subject to social, cultural and economic disadvantages that reduce their chances of overcoming their disability, so that their participation in community life is more difficult” .
Women and girls with disabilities experience double discrimination, which makes them more exposed to gender-based violence, sexual abuse, neglect, abuse and exploitation: they are between 2 and 5 times more likely to be exposed to violence than other women and girls. In addition, they have more difficulties to report, because access (scarce in itself) to justice is much worse in the case of someone with a disability.
The article goes on with short bios a group of disability rights pioneers Mexican women: Gaby Brimmer, Frida Kahlo, Carmelina Ortiz Monasterio, Judith Martínez de Vaillard, Covadonga Pérez Villegas, América Larráinzar Pérez, Maru Antúnez, María Angélica Luna Parra
The full list of women from Mexico and abroad go to https://yotambien.mx
