Policies on Gender in Relation to Disability: the Case of Spain

Resumen

Disability is an important factor of discrimination, and if we add the matter of gender, we find women with disabilities suffer double discrimination, placing them in an inequable situation compared to the population in general and to men with disabilities specifically. For this reason, through the present article, following an in-depth analysis of the binomial disability-gender, as variables to be taken into account due to the double discrimination which being a women with a disability means, the policies carried out at the international, European and national level are presented, using a triple classification: Policies for persons with disabilities; Policies of equal opportunities for women and men (with or without disabilities) and Policies for women with disabilities.