RT book part
T1 Women with disablities and labour market integration in Spain
A1 Guerrero Padrón, Thais
A2 Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social
K1 Multiple discrimination
K1 Intersectional discrimination against women with disabilities
K1 Integration into the labour market
K1 Job reserve quota
AB In April 2019, the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities assessed Spain’s compliance with the 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Its observations reveal the direction disability policy has been taking in recent years to make visible the unique position of women with disabilities and the obstacles they face, especially in the field of employment. Even today, despite the efforts made by public authorities and the legislator in order to provide appropriate solutions, official statistics and various studies highlight the fact that women with disabilities have lower levels of education, lower activity and employment rates, and high unemployment. The concept of disability and its treatment at a political and legal level has evolved in Spain in parallel to what has happened at an international and European level, from an individual medical care model towards a social model of human rights in which disability is the result of the interaction between people with a functional deficit and the barriers of the environment. The progressive application of the mainstreaming principle, which is helping to apply the gender approach in disability policy and vice versa, is a step forward that may result in a more favourable treatment of women with disabilities in the Spanish labour market. This paper shows some recent legal measures adopted by Spain in response to the Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities wondering about their real effectiveness in a labour market as peculiar as the Spanish one.
PB Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade
SN 9789403549002
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/35305
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/35305
LA eng
NO New Quality in Education for Gender Equality – Strategic Partnership for the Development of Master`s Study Program LAW AND GENDER – LAWGEM
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 11-nov-2026