Women With Disabilities and Living With Disabilities

acknowledgement: How many Canadians today will be thinking about women with disabilities when they think about women equality In Saskatchewan the theme for this year International Women Day is Resilience: The Strength of Women Living with Disabilities, according to Rabble. Not surprising perhaps from a province full of resilient folks, but surprising because the acknowledgement, understanding and support for women with disabilities and our leadership is still sadly too rare. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. The millions of women and girls with disabilities in Canada and the hundreds of millions of our sisters around the world will receive no such acknowledgement. Our unemployment rates are between 50 and 75 per cent, depending where we live in Canada. Women with disabilities in Canada are the poorest, living far below the poverty line. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.