Disabled Women of Today: Their Challenges & Their Fight back.
How do we define being disabled? What is it exactly? How does it feel like being called mentally & physically retarded? How does the world react to disabled people? All of these are not just simple questions but ones that are not being answered properly by today's society. I am trying to lead into the argument that, even in today's modern society like that in the United States, physically and mentally challenged and ill men and women face so many social, physical, mental and communicational barriers. Well I can even say that women to a larger extent face more of these barriers than do men in our society. .
I start this paper with such a strong argument because, even though this is a globalization oriented course, the event that I attended for this paper, called "Woman & Disabilities" has changed my perspective so much, that I cannot stop from presenting some of my hard critiques in this assignment. Certainly, this event was in most ways related to some of the effects of globalization that we have studied till now. Some of the comments and facts that were presented in the event do stand out as examples of the good and bad effects of globalization. As the paper goes into its body, I will point out many of these relations.
Let me now start by giving a brief gist of what this event was all about and how did it unfold. The event was called "Woman & Disabilities". It was an event where several women with different disabilities talked about the challenges they faced: internally, physically and socially. They also talked about their struggle to overcome these barriers and achieve success in life and attain their goals. The event was held on the 25th March in the East Lib.110 and was sponsored by the Women's Resource Center and Disabled Student Services. It was a four-hour event, which also had, breaks every hour. In the break time many small movie clippings of the past life of some of these disabled women were being shown.