GENDER AND DISABILITY.

The \\\'World Report on Disability\\\' (2011) published by the WHO & the World Bank estimates that 15% (over one billion people) of the world’s population are disabled. The prevalence of disability among women is higher than among men. Women with disabilities are the most marginalized and excluded group in the society. Women with disability are highly vulnerable, women are less powerful, weaker and the subordinate position and added the prevalence of disability makes the issues complicated. Women face double the discrimination in the society- Gender discrimination and for being disabled. Women with disability remain one of the most neglected and marginalized group in the society. Given the fact, Disability has very adverse effect among women and it also have with men with disability. Since Disability is a social construct, and the issues of gender is also socially constructed hence it is very important to study issues of disability in the context of gender. Hence this study focus on the gender issues related to disability, Where Gender is generally understood as the cultural interpretation of sexed bodies, surrounded in the whole apparatus of a society’s roles and norms. This study will throw light on the fact the experience of men and women with disability is not in the same way. The paper will have the issues of disability with a Gender lens.