Celebrating Worldwide Girls’s Day | Council of Canadians with Disabilities

March 8, 2022 — At present, the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) commemorates Worldwide Girls’s Day. Whereas celebrating the contribution of all girls, we draw specific consideration to girls with disabilities who additionally cope with ableism and different types of intersecting discrimination associated to their specific identities. We have a good time the work that girls with disabilities residing in Canada are doing to advertise entry and inclusion.  One important change-maker has been the DisAbled Girls’s Community of Canada (DAWN Canada) which has been advancing feminist options to ableism and intersectional boundaries since 1986. CCD applauds the work of DAWN Canada on Worldwide Girls’s Day.

CCD additionally applauds the various particular person girls with disabilities who've been making a distinction in Canada.

Younger girls with disabilities are leaders on campuses throughout Canada. They're explaining how academic practices have to be remodeled to be inclusive of learners with disabilities.

Within the dwelling, girls with disabilities are moms, caregivers to members of the family; we're the heads of many households.

Within the labour market, we've jobs starting from cupboard minister to medical skilled to artist.

In sport, we're representing our nation on the Paralympics.

Senior girls with disabilities are sharing the knowledge they've acquired navigating the boundaries attributable to discrimination.

The theme for Worldwide Girls’s Day, 8 March, 2022 (IWD 2022) is, “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”. Many ladies with disabilities who work in group organizations are working onerous to maintain folks protected as many teams cope with modifications to public well being necessities associated to COVID-19.