WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES, VIOLENCE AND ABUSE IN NIGERIA
Dada, Olubukola Christianah Ph.D.
Department of inclusive/special Education, college of education, Kwara state university, Malete, Kwara state, Nigeria
Abstract: women with disabilities are victims of double jeopardy. Being a woman and a person with disabilities makes them to be victims of abuse and violence. The confluence of these two factors more often than not results in an extremely high risk of violence against persons with disabilities. This study in view of this aimed at looking at the violence and abuse experienced by women with disabilities in Ibadan metropolis. The ex-post facto research design was used. The participants are one hundred and fifty women with disabilities who had experienced violence and abuse or have heard about violence and abuse of women with disabilities. The purposive sampling technique was used. A twenty-item questionnaire was used to elicit Reponses from the respondents. Three research questions were generated from the study. Multiple regression statistical method was used to analyze the data collected. The analysis of data revealed that women with disabilities like women without disabilities experienced violence and abuse in diverse ways such as rape, abandonment, physical assaults leading to bruises or wounds and at times death. Based on the findings of the study it Is recommended that there should be continuous campaign against violence and abuse of women in general and women with disabilities in particular. This could be reinforced through the different forms of media. with this it is assumed that the level of violence and abuse would be reduced drastically.
