We will seek to balance contributions with implications for methodology and contributions with consequences for policy. ICI is seeking women who are employed and at least 21 years of age to respond to a survey about successes, obstacles encountered, opportunities developed and lessons learned. The goal is to understand the challenges that women with disabilities encounter in the work world and to identify strategies that help in the pursuit of career goals. Its goal is to help high school students learn about disability and gender within a science or humanities context. Suggestions are needed regarding role models, topics, videos audio and text resources.
Participation is needed for focus groups.
In recent years there have been two very successful disabled women's conferences held immediately prior to the annual conferences of the Society for Disability Studies. Next year the SDS Conference will take place in Winnipeg, Canada in June and we are trying to bring together interested people in planning an event immediately before or after. Deaf Women Against Violence. The group has included disability concerns in its work and recently elected Kathy Martinez of the World Institute on Disability as its Vice President. One of their most interesting recent actions was to develop a Report Card on how well the US Government did on implementation of key promises since the 1995 Beijing Conference.