All Together

Although both young men and women with disabilities in Europe are subject to discrimination, young women with disabilities are at a further disadvantage because of the combined discrimination based on age, gender and disability. Recent European statistics point out that while disabled people are much more likely to live in poverty, women are likely to be poorer than men; young disabled women achieve lower educational outcomes than men; they are less likely to be in the paid workforce than either men with disabilities, have lower incomes from employment; less likely to have access to rehabilitation; more likely to experience public spaces as intimidating and dangerous. There is a serious lack of research to analyze in dept problems of access to education, employment, public life or human rights dimension of the problems of young women and disability in Europe. The project will seek to bridge the research gap and open a public debate about the strategies to empower European young women with disabilities for active European citizenship.