Publication: Safeguarding the Rights of Women with Disabilities to Family Life, Work, and Protection from Gender-based Violence
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2025-04-17
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2025-04-17
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Women with disabilities face additional barriers to their socioeconomic participation compared to men, with and without disabilities as well as to women without disabilities, resulting in significant employment gaps and high exposure to gender-based violence. Laws around the world largely fail to protect the rights of women with disabilities to nondiscrimination, respect for family life, labor market inclusion, and a life free from violence. This brief analyzes legal and policy data from 190 economies on the rights of women with disabilities and highlights promising practices where laws directly recognize and protect these needs, with the goal of informing policy reforms across the globe.
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“Braunmiller, Julia Constanze; Dry, Marie Jeanne Charlotte. 2025. Safeguarding the Rights of Women with Disabilities to Family Life, Work, and Protection from Gender-based Violence. Global Indicators Briefs; No. 14. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/43094 License: CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO.”