Call for participants: focus groups for disabled women and women with long-term health conditions to share their experiences of employment in Scotland

There’s a significant lack of Scotland-specific data on disabled women’s experiences of engaging with the labour market. These gaps mean that employment policy development and decisions around the labour market frequently ignores the inequalities disabled women face.

Close the Gap has been delivering a research project on the labour market experiences of disabled women. A literature review has been produced, and exploratory focus groups with disabled women held. We’re now holding two further focus groups.

 

Focus group 1, with racially-minoritised disabled women and those with long-term health conditions

The workplace experiences of racially-minoritised disabled women and women with long-term health conditions is a significantly under-researched area. The discussion will focus on:

• The specific inequalities that racially-minoritised disabled women face due to intersecting inequalities based on race, disability and gender;
• The ways in which their engagement with the labour market, including workplace culture and practice, are shaped by racism, disability discrimination and sexism.
• The solutions to the workplace inequalities they face.

This focus group is for self-identifying racially-minoritised women who are disabled or who have a long-term health condition (including mental health).

This is an in-person focus group, taking place in Glasgow city centre on Saturday 15^th June, 12:00-13:30.

 

Focus group 2, on the theme of performance management in the workplace

Performance management has emerged as a strong theme in our research thus far. Disabled women report that their skills and capabilities at work are routinely questioned, and performance management policies are often used to enable this. The discussion will look in more detail at the use of performance management and how this affects disabled women.

This focus group is for self-identifying women who are disabled or have a long-term health condition (including mental health). It will be held online on Monday 24^th of June, 18:30-20:00.

 

Register for the focus groups

Register here for focus group 1 on racially-minoritised disabled women’s experiences, Saturday 15^th June, 12:00-13:30, CitizenM Hotel, 60 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G2 3BW

 

Register here for the focus group 2 on disabled women’s experiences of performance management, Monday 24^th June, 18:30-20:00, online.

 

Participants will receive a £30 shopping voucher in return for their time. Childcare and transport costs will also be reimbursed, where applicable.

 

We endeavour to meet all access requirements for participants. Further information on this is available in the registration form.