What gender of persons with disabilities have it the hardest in the Bahamas?
We will have to say our women, and it is not only here in The Bahamas according to the UN and the WHO: Women with disabilities are recognized to be multiply disadvantaged, experiencing exclusion on account of their gender and their disability. Women and girls with disabilities are particularly vulnerable to abuse. A small 2004 survey in Orissa, India, found that virtually all of the women and girls with disabilities were beaten at home, 25 per cent of women with intellectual disabilities had been raped and 6 per cent of disabled women had been forcibly sterilized.
