Discrimination in Employment and Remuneration (see Articles 27 and 28)
In its 2010 Concluding Observations, the UN CEDAW Committee expressed its concern about “the limited access to job opportunities for women with disabilities”.45 Women with disability are significantly disadvantaged in employment in relation to access to jobs, in regard to remuneration for the work they perform and in the types of jobs they gain. These issues are raised in Articles 27 and 28.
Overrepresentation and Treatment in the Prison System (see Articles 13 and 15)
Women with disability are overrepresented in the prison system in Australia. In particular, the incarceration rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women with disability are higher than equivalent figures for men.
RECOMMENDATIONS Article 6
That Australia provides the necessary resources to the various collection and reporting agencies (particularly the Australian Bureau of Statistics) to improve the public availability of data disaggregated by gender, disability, age, ethnicity and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status.
That Australia commissions and funds a comprehensive assessment of the situation of girls and women with disability, in order to establish a baseline of disaggregated data against which future progress towards the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and CRPD rights can be measured.
