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Author: Lauren Applebaum

Lauren Appelbaum is the Communications Director at RespectAbility and the Managing Editor of The RespectAbility Report, a publication at the intersection of disability and politics. She is also the talent behind #RespectTheAbility campaign, which highlights model employers that demonstrate how hiring workers with disabilities benefits the employer, the employee and society. Lauren has a master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from Syracuse University and undergraduate degrees from Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary.
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Why are Thousands of Women with Disabilities Leaving the Workforce?

Lauren Applebaum

According to the newly published 2018 Annual Disability Statistics Compendium, 111,804 people with disabilities entered the workforce in 2017, but 3,736 women with disabilities left it. These losses occurred even as other segments of the disability community continued to see job gains.

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