Statistics

Source: Jewish Women International

This section addresses the issue of women with disabilities abused by an intimate partner (versus general caretaker or other relationship). Similar to the non-disabled population, women comprise the majority of domestic violence victims with disabilities, although disabled men can also experience abuse. Here we will use the model of the female victim and the male perpetrator.

How many women have disabilities?


About 250 million women in the world live with some type of disability (www.independentliving.org), including 25 million women in the United States (Baylor College of Medicine, Center for Research on Women with Disabilities (CROWD), www.bcm.edu/crowd).

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