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Over 3.9 million disabled women are in the labor force. These women experience sexist and ableist discrimination at work and complex barriers to gaining and keeping employment. Disabled women’s labor force participation rate (22.0%) is three times less than that of men without disabilities (68.1%). And when they do participate in the labor force, disabled women (7.2%) experience unemployment at twice the rate of nondisabled men (3.6%). Among full-time, year-round workers, disabled women in the United States are typically paid only 67 cents for every dollar paid to nondisabled men. This means disabled women lose $20,000 every year to the wage gap when compared to nondisabled men. Among all workers, including part-time and part-year workers, disabled women are typically paid just 50 cents for every dollar paid to nondisabled men.
