Impact: Feature Issue on Employment and Women With Disabilities

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  • Impact: Volume 21 · Number 1 PDF

Article Publication Date: 
11/19/2009
Summary: 
What significance does employment hold for women with disabilities? What is known and unknown about these women? This issue of “Impact” answers these questions with articles by women with disabilities and researchers. Issues covered include self-employment, mentoring, transition planning, disparities across ethnic groups, and career development. Several women with disabilities who are successful artists, scientists, educators and entrepreneurs are profiled.
Article Author: 
Gaylord, Vicki; Ely, Carol; O’Day, Bonnie; Foley, Susan; Martinez, Kathy; Rousso, Harilyn; Clark, Melissa; Howanach, Sr. Johnelle; Carstensen, Martha; Parent, Wendy; Smith, Diane L.; Alston, Reginald J.; Balcazar, Fabricio E.; Evelo, Sheryl; Hogansen, Jen
Topics: 
Employment Programs
Types/Tools: 
Newsletter, periodic publication
Populations: 
Developmental/Intellectual Disabilities; Physical Disabilities; Direct Care Workforce
Sources: 
Institute on Community Integration; UCEDD; Research and Training Center on Community Living
Programs/Initiatives: 
N/A
States: 
All States/Territories
Keywords: 
Community Inclusion
self-advocacy; demographics; self-employment; rural; Impact; employment; women

Contact

Institute on Community Integration University of Minnesota
icipub@umn.edu
Phone: 
612-624-4512

Short URL: http://www.advancingstates.org/node/51810