(dis)ABILITY RIGHTS
(dis)ABILITY RIGHTS is a scholarly work, published in 2018 in ''Canadian social work review = Revue canadienne de service social''. The main subject of the publication is political science. SOCIAL WORK NEEDS to be aware of ableism, (dis)Ability discrimination, and the oppression of people with (dis)Abilities.The probability that authors ourselves will experience a (dis)Ability within the authors' lifetime is close to 100 % (Zola, 1982).Further, given the statistics cited below, there is a strong likelihood that social workers, regardless of their field of practice, will work with clients who are (dis)Abled.In Canada 14.9 % of women and 12.5 % of men identified as living with a (dis)Ability that impacts their activities of daily living (Burlock, 2017).Provincially, this statistic ranges for women between 9.8 % in Quebec to 16.6 % in Manitoba; and for men between 8.9 % in Quebec to 15.8 % in the Atlantic region.Indigenous women have the highest percentage of (dis)Ability with 22 %, compared to 14.7 % for non-indigenous women; whereas the difference between Indigenous men and non-indigenous men is not as significant, 14.6 % compared to 12.5 % (Burlock, 2017).Fifteen point seven percent of (dis)Abled women have obtained a bachelor degree whereas 30.7 % of women without a (dis)Ability have a bachelor degree.Women with (dis)Abilities continue to be the lowest paid ($58,870) in comparison to women without (dis)Abilities ($79,130) and men with ($61,530) and without ($81,310)(dis)Abilities.The poorest of the poor in Canada are women living with (dis)Abilities, for according to Dawn Canada (2014) their average annual income is $8,360.