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should hurry and get married and have children. But as I
became pregnant, my doctors and my mother recommended
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had been denied.
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Women x Disability
Let society be a place
where we can live
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Let’s change Japan’s
policies in Geneva
and create asolidarity among
women withdisabilities all over
the world.

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would have been receiving because it was based on thecurrent employment situation and average wages which
already have a gender gap. 㻌 㻌 㻌 ¶V3K\VLFDOO\GLVDEOHG  ,QSDUWLFXODUWKHVXUYH\RQWKH(PSOR\PHQW6LWXDWLRQRI3HUVRQVZLWK'LVDELOLWLHVGRHVQRWDVNDERXWJHQGHU6RLWLV
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“ I am a woman with a speech impediment. Nobody ever asked
me how I wanted to live my life. But I don’t give up. ”

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isn’t it? Your family and spouse will take care of you if you
are disabled.” The idea that a woman doesn’t work and islooked after by her family is completely unacceptable tome㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌  ¶V0HQWDOO\GLVDEOHG 6H[XDODVVDXOWYLROHQFHDQGDEXVH

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was assisting me during my bath time, he touched mybreasts and other parts of my body. It was horrible. I told mymom but she did not believe me. That was even worse.
¶V3K\VLFDOO\GLVDEOHG  I was sexually molested at elementary school. You need tocommunicate to get help. I was not able to call out for help
because of my hearing disability. The same person molested
me again when I was a junior high school student.
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me to a hotel and raped me. Afterwards, he repeatedly
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pads was performed by men. All the women patients disliked
this intensely and demanded same-gender assistance, but wewere told that women are not strong enough to do this work.
Assistance was given with the curtains open and in full view of
the corridor. ¶V3K\VLFDOO\GLVDEOHGZLWKPXVFXODUG\VWURSK\  The household helper’s hours were cut back. I wanted more

help with cooking and so on, but I was told, “You’re a woman,so do it yourself.” 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 ¶V0HQWDOO\GLVDEOHG  I was worried about raising children because I was receiving
insufficient assistance for my daily life. If there were assistancefor children I might have been able to have my own children.
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