EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES AMONG MEN AND WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES: HOW THE INTERSECTION OF GENDER AND DISABILITY STATUS SHAPES LABOR MARKET INEQUALITY

Purpose ! This chapter assesses how gender and disability status intersect to shape employment and earnings outcomes for working-age adults in the United States.

Methodology/approach ! The research pools five years of data from the 2010!2015 Current Population Survey to compare employment and earnings outcomes for men and women with different types of physical and cognitive disabilities to those who specifically report work-limiting disabilities.

Findings ! The findings show that people with different types of limitations, including those not specific to work, experienced large disparities in employ- ment and earnings and these outcomes also varied for men and women. The multiplicative effects of gender and disability on labor market outcomes led to a hierarchy of disadvantage where women with cognitive or multiple dis- abilities experienced the lowest employment rates and earnings levels.