They take away your drug card. You may have to use a large part of your salary for medication just to keep going. Many women with disabilities say they have had trouble getting back onto a benefit program when they have lost their job or have been unable to continue working due to a change in their disability. It's a vicious circle. I had to fight to get homecare to come in twice a week to help me have a bath.
Isolation is a problem encountered by some women with disabilities.
Because support from a partner, parent, sibling, friend or support group can help boost the self-confidence of women with disabilities, isolation acts as a barrier to the labour market. Having a support system can also provide women with useful contacts for training and employment opportunities. Negative public attitudes Both women and men cite negative attitudes towards people with disabilities as one of the most powerful barriers to their employment. Many people feel that if these negative attitudes could be changed, many of the more concrete barriers would be more evident and greater efforts would be made to eliminate the barriers. People need to look past the disabilities to find the abilities.