Gender and Disability concepts briefly to get ideas for development workers

1. Measurement of gender dimensions
of
Persons with Disabilities

2. • Persons with disabilities differ in most areas of life and obviously in regard to
gender identity.
• By ignoring gender and overlooking differences in the roles, responsibilities,
access, needs and interests of different sexes, the interventions run the risk of
deepening the inequality between women and men with disabilities.
• Disabilities affect men and women differently, but impact more on females
compared to males due to social and cultural roles.
• Discriminatory cultural practices on property inheritance and property
ownership affect the livelihoods of women with disabilities more adversely
than men with disabilities.

3. • This is compounded by inadequate programmes that focus on women with
disabilities during service delivery, which makes it even more difficult for them
to improve their livelihoods, have health facilities, in education and each
development arena
• Lack of public awareness, negative community attitudes, cultural beliefs and
lack of programmes on specific concerns of women with disabilities remain
challenges.

4. Why Groups are Important
Some groups have their own lives, i.e., cultures which may be have
information prerequisites.
• Indigenous peoples
• Ethnic/cultural groups
• People may have information needs based on theirv shared positions
within society (i.e., due to past or current oppression or discrimination.)
• Women
• Transgender
• Persons with Disabilities
• Children and Teens
• Elderly people

5. Social identities are
(1) ways that others see us and, thus, shape the expectations and
interpretations of others,
(2) ways we see ourselves, and. Thus, shape our expectations and
interpretations of ourselves.
• How do they work?
We are not good at accurately reporting our own or others reasons for
acting. We choose from the array of socially current scripts - based on
social identities.

6. It is important to work on various dimensions to provide equal opportunities to
every member of the community:
• Age
• Different sex
• Race/ ethnicity
• Disability
• Religion
• Socio-economic condition
• Educational competency etc.

7. Thanks