We often get asked why we campaign for the rights of disabled women. Here are a few reasons.

Employment and Pay

• 35% of disabled women (and 30% of disabled men) are paid below the National Living Wage in the UK.^[1]
• Disabled men face a pay gap of 11%, while disabled women faced a gap twice as large at 22%.^[2]
• Despite qualifications, disabled women have lower participation rates in higher skilled jobs and work fewer hours than both non-disabled women and disabled men.^[3]
• 27% of disabled women are economically inactive compared with 16% disabled men.^[4]
• Lone parenthood reduces female employment generally by 15%. However, disabled female lone parents are more than half as likely to work than non-disabled female lone parents.^[5]

Violence and Abuse

• Disabled people experience more domestic abuse than non-disabled people. Disabled women are significantly more likely to experience domestic abuse than disabled men.^[6] In fact, one in ten experienced domestic abuse in 2012-13.^[7]
• Abuse is also more severe, more frequent and more enduring.^[8][9][10]
• Deaf women are twice as likely as hearing women to suffer domestic abuse.^[11]
• The Serious Crime Act 2015 made ‘coercive and controlling behaviour in an intimate or family relationship’ a criminal offence (s.76). The Act provides that it is a defence for a perpetrator to show that they believed themselves to be acting in the victim’s ‘best interests’. This was intended to cover carers. We believe this defence risks preventing disabled women and people with learning disabilities from seeing their abusers brought to justice.

Health and Medical Care

• UK maternity care does not meet the needs of disabled women. A 2016 study revealed that only “19% of disabled women said reasonable adjustments had been made for them.”^[12]
• The CEDAW Committee is concerned that “Disabled, older, asylum seeking and Traveller women face obstacles in accessing medical health care and that Disabled women have limited access to pre-natal care and reproductive health services”.^[13]
• Disabled women, particularly with learning difficulties, are at risk of forced sterilisation in the UK or are encouraged to consent to sterilisation as a form of ‘menstruation management’ rather than be presented with a range of options available to other women.

Mental Health

• Disabled women with a mental health problem die on average 13 years earlier than the general UK population.^[14]
• Nearly half of female prisoners in the UK have been identified as having anxiety and depression. This is double the rate of male prisoners. What’s more, nearly half female prisoners (more than double the rate for men) report attempting suicide.^[15]

Public Life

• The CEDAW Committee is concerned that ethnic minority and disabled women are particularly poorly represented in Parliament, the legal system and on public sector.^[16]

You download the information on this page as a PDF factsheet.

^[1] Equality and Human Rights Commission. 2017. Being Disabled in Britain. https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/being-disabled-in-britain.pdf

^[2] Papworth Trust. 2016. Disability in UK 2016 Facts and Figures. http://www.papworthtrust.org.uk/sites/default/files/Disability%20Facts%20and%20Figures%202016.pdf

^[3] All Party Parliamentary Group for Women and Work. 2016. Women Returns Annual Report 2016. https://connectpa.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Women-and-work-Annual-report-low-res.pdf

^[4] TUC. 2015. Disability and employment. https://www.tuc.org.uk/sites/default/files/DisabilityandEmploymentReport.pdf

^[5] The Poverty Site, 2011 http://www.poverty.org.uk/45/index.shtml

^[6] Adding insult to injury: intimate partner violence among women and men reporting activity limitations. Cohen, M. et al. 8, 2006, Annals of Epidemiology, Vol. 16, pp. 644-651

^[7] Public Health England. 2015. Disability and domestic abuse: Risk, impacts and response. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/480942/Disability_and_domestic_abuse_topic_overview_FINAL.pdf

^[8] Adding insult to injury: intimate partner violence among women and men reporting activity limitations. Cohen, M. et al. 8, 2006, Annals of Epidemiology, Vol. 16, pp. 644-651

^[9] Prevalence of abuse of women with physical disabilities. Young, M. et al. 1997, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vol. 78, pp. 34-38.

^[10] Partner violence against women with disabilities: prevalence, risk and explanations. Brownridge, D. 2006, Violence against women, Vol. 12, pp. 805-822.

^[11] Women’s Aid. 2015. https://www.womensaid.org.uk/16-days-deaf-survivors-and-domestic-abuse/

^[12] Hall J, Collins B, Ireland J, and Hundley V. (2016) Interim report: The Human Rights & Dignity Experience of Disabled Women during Pregnancy, Childbirth and Early Parenting. Centre for Midwifery Maternal and Perinatal Health, Bournemouth University: Bournemouth. http://www.birthrights.org.uk/2016/09/maternity-care-failing-some-disabled-women/

^[13] UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women : Great Britain, November 2014, available at: https://nawo.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/CEDAW-concluding-observations-EHRC-and-NAWO.pdf

^[14] Equality and Human Rights Commission. 2017. Being Disabled in Britain. https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/being-disabled-in-britain.pdf

^[15] Light, M., Grant, E. and Hopkins, K. (2013), ‘Gender differences in substance misuse and mental health amongst prisoners: Results from the Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction (SPCR) longitudinal cohort study of prisoners’. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/surveying-prisoner-crime-reduction-spcr

^[16] UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women : Great Britain, November 2014, available at: https://nawo.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/CEDAW-concluding-observations-EHRC-and-NAWO.pdf

With thanks to the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) Catalyst grant as part of the Disability/Sexuality project, we have an Accessibility Guide to Meetings and Events – a Toolkit

This resource is downloadable, feel free to use but please do credit us if you do and send us comments if we need to add anything.

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Sisters of Frida CIC is a collective of disabled women, bringing disabled women together, mobilising and sharing through lived experiences.

This guide has been produced as a practical tool to help groups to support and ensure that disabled women will be included and participate when planning meetings and events. There are other accessibility toolkits but we have included specific mentions to disabled women’s needs.

The guide is based upon the Social Model of Disability – that focuses on barriers or difficulties as created by society and not on the individual impairments.

The guide covers:

– Access considerations when publicising meetings

– Access considerations when choosing a venue

– Access considerations during meetings.

The very minimum that most organisations consider is wheelchair access at the venue where a meeting or event is being held. There should also be an accessible toilet.

BSL British sign language interpreters should be offered /or palantypists (speech to text). Not every deaf or hearing impaired person understand /use BSL – 121 captions provide live captioning services and live electronic notetaking remotely.

The Social Model of Disability

The Social Model of Disability is a civil rights model of disability.

The Social Model was developed by disabled people. It takes the view that society creates barriers that ‘disable’ people from participating fully and on an equal basis with others and that these barriers must be removed. By creating barriers in buildings and structures or by not producing information in different formats such as Braille or Easy Read, people with impairments/health conditions are ‘disabled’. This way of thinking takes the focus away from what is ‘wrong’ with a disabled person (their impairment or condition) and puts the emphasis on what we should all do, in alliance, to identify and remove barriers.

Social model definition from ALLFIE:

It is not the responsibility of Disabled and Deaf individuals to “make do” to a system or environment if it is not accessible or inclusive.

Publicity for the Meeting or Event

 

– Inform people what the meeting is about e.g. networking meeting, action/event planning, Annual General Meeting, or training session.

– Do not use jargon, explain acronyms, use plain English.

– All leaflets, posters etc should include access details e.g.:

– Transport – nearest step-free underground/overground station, bus information,

– Nearest accessible parking

– Whether the meeting venue is step free, has a lift and accessible toilets

– Whether there will be sign language interpreters at the meeting

– Check for the day itself, if there will be roadworks or changes in public transport/diversions.

– Give people as much notice as possible. Get publicity out early. People may need to arrange BSL English interpreters, support or transport, book childcare, plan routes etc.

– Make sure that publicity material includes an email address, telephone, text numbers that people can use to get details about access.

– Allow for alternative formats in case it is requested.

– Use appropriate terminology and positive and include images of Deaf and Disabled People  on information and publicity

– Minimise the use of PDFs and provide texts readable by text readers.

Choosing a Venue

Find out:

– Any food shops/ cafes/ restaurants in the area/venue where people can get drinks or food before the meeting if they require it?

– Is the venue in a safe area?

– Is there good street lighting in the area?

– Are there people around at night if it is isolated?

– Are there phones in the venue/ or lobby /reception area that people without mobiles can use to call taxis?

– Are corridors and reception areas obstacle free? If there are any obstacles these should be clearly highlighted.

– Is there enough room for movement around tables, chairs and the spaces used?

– Is there a gender neutral toilet?

– Is there a space for a guide dog to go to toilet outside?

– Is there a child-friendly space next to the meeting space?

– Is there street parking? Are there single or double yellow lines? Are there any parking spaces for blue badges? Accessible parking bays?

– If parking is only available in a car park, what is the height restriction of the entrance?

– Are there hearing loops?

– If there is no ‘Changing Places’ toilet, find out where the nearest toilet would be. This might make a difference as to whether a disabled person can come.

The Meeting/Event Room

– Is there an accessible toilet on the same floor as the meeting room?

– Has all clutter, including materials used by cleaners, been moved out of the accessible toilet?

– If a key is needed for the accessible toilet, do the meeting organisers have one / know where this is kept?

– Is there adequate lighting in the meeting room to enable people with visual impairments to move around easily and see the speakers?

– If a stage is being used is it accessible by ramp?

– Do lifts have tactile buttons at a height accessible for wheelchair users and/or short people ?

– Is the lift large enough for at least one wheelchair user and one other person?

– Does the lift tell passengers which floor it has stopped on?

– Are there heavy doors between the lift and the meeting room – if yes, can the doors be propped open?

– Are stairs well lit, with high-visibility markings & bannisters both sides?

– Can the heating in the room be altered?

– Is there a safe/quiet space (other than the reception or toilet) that people can use if required?

– Is there a screen for palantypist/skype if required?

Seating

– Have seats been reserved for BSL English interpreters/ palantypists?

– Is the room furniture flexible for rearrangement?

– If there is limited seating, can some of it be reserved for anyone who finds standing for long periods of time difficult?

– Have some seats with armrests, and some bigger chairs and some with back support.

 

Other considerations

 

– Have BSL English Interpreters / palantypists been booked? This may be needed, and there is a significant cost associated with sign language interpretation. Make sure this is factored into the costs at the planning stage.

– BSL English (sign language) interpreters or personal assistants (PAs) of a Disabled Person enable access. They should not be viewed simply or necessarily as an additional member of the group.  Engage directly with the Disabled Person, not the support worker/ personal assistant or the interpreter. You may need 2-3 or more weeks’ notice to book support. BSL interpreters can be very busy. It is also good to ask them if they mind being photographed or video if you plan to video the event.

– Electronic notetaking and Palantype are two speech-to-text access systems. Some people who have low hearing or a hearing loss prefer to have electronic notetaking. This means that a person sits next to the Deaf person typing all that is being said.  Palantypists have a large screen where the voice to text typist will type everything that is being said and this will be on a visual display for everyone to read.  Do not assume what people might need, best to check with individuals.

– Find out whether the venue has an induction loop system.  If it has, check that it works and has been tested.  If the loop system is not present a portable one can be hired or its absence clearly noted

– If papers are being discussed, circulated beforehand in people’s preferred formats, e.g. by email, if requested.

– Have comfort breaks been built into the agenda of the meeting for people who need them?

– Have the speakers/participants been briefed about how to work with any Interpreters or those attending who are using Braille, etc?

– Check the acoustics. Background noise also may make it difficult for some people to join in the meeting?

– Ask participants not to wear perfumes or scents for people who have neuro diverse to smells.

– You might need to designate a quiet room for people who might feel overwhelmed and need a quiet space.

– For people who could not make it for some reason, consider livestreaming or videoing the event. Have a twitter hashtag for participants to network and comment as well as live tweet the event. Not all events can be exposed to social media. Consent should be sort from the attendees.

– Are you offering a crèche or child minding facilities?

– It might be helpful to have a stool for people of short stature in the loo to facilitate transfers.

– Consider ‘buddies’ for people with sight impairments – to give them descriptions of the room, the size, or the people, to guide them around to have a better experience of the event.

Chairing/facilitating

 

– Do not assume pronouns of delegates – e.g. refer to the person in the orange top, rather than the lady with the brown jumper.

– Keeping to time is an accessibility requirement for many reasons. People may have planned toilet or rest/ prayer breaks (working with PAs) around particular speakers, need to take medication, or need to leave at a certain time for any number of reasons. Allow flexibility, inform the group that they may leave if necessary.

– Although time keeping is important, being strict sometimes also has accessibility problems! People may become flustered or upset if stopped before they have finished.

– If this is a specialist group then be sensitive about the identities of the people present. Ask people not to mention that they have attended the meeting outside of the immediate group.

– If there are many delegates/participants, use a microphone for the questions asked, or else ask the Chair to repeat the question.

– Remind people not to have flash photography.

– At the event, do not have speakers against brightly lit windows

Presenting

– Ask speakers using flip-charts, PowerPoint, to read out the information on them for the benefit of people who do not access print? Ideally PowerPoint presentations should be circulated, in advance

– Are tables, notice boards, flip charts, whiteboards, other furniture and equipment also accessible to wheelchair users?

– Provide writing material for people who might like to write notes.

– Get everyone to introduce themselves, and ask them to let you know if they have any other access needs which are not being met. Ensure icebreakers are inclusive so that nobody gets left out.

– Have comfort breaks every 60 – 90 minutes.

– Be clear as to what decisions are being made – repeat them before moving on to the next agenda item.

– Inform the presenter the format of the day in advance. Ask them if they mind answering questions.

Catering/ food and drink

– Lunch breaks need to be long enough for everyone to eat, drink and go to a toilet. Some people use this time to network and catch up with friends.

– Ask for dietary requirements in the booking form beforehand, and order some vegetarian/dairy/gluten-free/ carb free /kosher / halal options in case people sign-up late or forget to get in touch in advance.

– Drinks serving could include glasses with a handle and straws

Conclusion

Holding any inclusive event can be expensive. But make provisions for access when you apply for funding (include it into your budget to be considered).

You can sometimes get better deals with some venues and depending on the event, you might be able to get sign language interpreter volunteers. (but don’t count on it)

Links

Equality Act 2010 and ‘reasonable adjustments’

Citizens Advice guide to reasonable adjustments

ISAN Access Toolkit: making outdoor arts accessible for all (2009) offers guidance to help organisers make Outdoor Arts more accessible for Deaf and disabled audiences and artists and it will help you to understand your obligations under the Disability Discrimination Act. (pre Equality Act 2010). The ISAN Access Toolkit is available to download as a PDF. 

Independent BSL interpreters

Floating PAs (for London only)

Live Captions

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Kirsten Hearn who provided us with her guidelines from her work.

And to Jen Slater (Sheffield Hallam University) from accessibility guidelines from her own experiences organising accessible events.

This toolkit was compiled by Eleanor Lisney, a co-founder of Sisters of Frida and a certified Access Advisor.

With thanks also to Maria Zedda (Sisters of Frida co founder), of Wideaware,  for casting her eyes over the toolkit and suggesting some missing points.

Funded by the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) Catalyst grant as part of the Disability/Sexuality project

This resource is downloadable, feel free to use but please credit us too and send us comments if we need to add anything.

Sisters of Frida Access Toolkit PDF

Sisters of Frida Access Toolkit MS Word

READING LIST: Intersectional disability & disabled women

December 2020 Notice: We are in the process of updating the resource link text to be more accessible, but due to the high number of resource entries it is taking a little time. Thank you for your patience!

Version: January 2017

• Academic resources: 208 entries
• Third sector, government and UN reports and papers: 25 entries 

You can also download the reading list as Word Doc or as PDF

Compiled by Dieuwertje Dyi Huijg, Sisters of Frida & University of Manchester

Academic Resources

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2. Abu-Khalil, Jahda. (2015). Taking the world stage: disabled women at Beijing. In: Lina Abu-Habib (Ed.), Gender and disability: Women’s experiences in the Middle East (pp. 67-72). London: Oxfam.

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4. Al-Awabida, Najah Diab. (2016). The Disabled Woman in Syria. Al-Raida Journal, 4. Open Access

5. Annamma, Subini A. (2015). DisCrit: Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education. Teachers College Press.

6. Arenas Conejo, Míriam. (2011). Disabled women and transnational feminisms: shifting boundaries and frontiers. Disability & Society, 26(5), 597-609. Closed Access

7. Atshan, Leila. (2015). Disability and gender at a cross-roads: a Palestinian perspective. In: Lina Abu-Habib (Ed.), Gender and disability: Women’s experiences in the Middle East (pp. 53-59). London: Oxfam.

8. Artiles, Alfredo J. (2013). Untangling the Racialization of Disabilities. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 10(02), 329-347. Open Access

9. Axtell, Sara. (1999). Disability and chronic illness identity: Interviews with lesbians and bisexual women and their partners. International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, 4(1), 53-72. Closed Access

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THIRD SECTOR, GOVERNMENT & UN REPORTS AND PAPERS

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Compiled by Dieuwertje Dyi Huijg, Sisters of Frida & University of Manchester

Additions

(on reproductive rights and disability)

Reproductive Health Matters

An international journal on sexual and reproductive health and rights

Volume 25, 2017 – Issue 50: Disability and sexuality: claiming sexual and reproductive rights

Here are the videos from the day Disabled Women’s Voices from the Frontline Saturday 9th July, 11am – 4.30pm 

Introduction by Annabel Crowley

Simone Aspis

Sophie Partridge and Penny Pepper

transcript

 

Kirsten Hearn

transcript

Miss Jacqui

transcript coming soon

Pauline Latchem

transcript

Guests speakers – Jagoda and Jasmina Risteska

transcript

notes from discussion

Many thanks to for funding this event

Sisters of Frida: Disabled Women’s Voices from the Frontline

Transcript List:

Jagoda and Jasmina Risteka

Kirsten Hearn

Simone Aspis

Becky Olaniyi

Sophie Partridge and Penny Pepper

Pauline Latcham

We were told about the possibility to add a submission to the UN CESCR Committee which is reviewing the UK at their next session in June by the International Disability Alliance.
Armineh Soorenian with Eleanor Lisney with some help from others for references came together with this Submission to CESCR Committee.Sisters of Frida.UK. ENIL also published it under the heading Rights of UK Disabled Women in Spotlight.

Sisters of Frida (SoF), a disabled women’s collective based in the UK, highlighted a number of developments that have negatively impacted on disabled people, in their submission to the UN Committee on the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The input provided will feed into ongoing review of the UK by the Committee.

The submission has identified a number of restrictions disabled people face with respect to their economic and social rights (as set out in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), particularly the impact of austerity measures on their rights enjoyment and exercise.

Among other, SoF has expressed concerns about increasing institutionalisation of disabled people, as a result of the lack of adequate housing strategies. It also warned that the cuts to Access to Work and the Employment Support Allowance have led to further marginalisation of disabled people.

Finally, the submission focuses on Article 10 of the ICESCR – on the protection of family, mothers and children. It sets out barriers faced by disabled women and of those, disabled women from black and ethnic minorities (BME), calling for an amendment to the Serious Crime Act 2015.

See also the article in Disability News Service.

Updated

The number and quality of the recommendations made throughout the document was remarked on because ‘it is not a common practice for the committee to address the rights of disabled people in particular women, so comprehensively – re disproportionate impact of austerity measures, social protection, poverty, violence, employment, housing’ etc.

It emphasised problems with welfare reform, saying it was “deeply concerned” about “the various changes in the entitlements to, and cuts in, social benefits”, including the reduction of the household benefit cap, the four-year freeze on certain benefits and the reduction in child tax credits. It added that these changes adversely affect “women, children, persons with disabilities, low-income families and families with two or more children”.

And it called for more information in the UK’s next report to the committee on the impact of its national strategy on gender-based violence, particularly on disabled women and girls.

Here is the CESCR Committee’s Concluding Observations on UK document

See John Pring’s article in Disability News Service UN report raises ‘deep concerns’ about impact of austerity on disabled people

Read also UK Human Rights Blog on the report

The New Stateman The UN declares the UK’s austerity policies in breach of international human rights obligations

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