ABSTRACT
Before the 1960s, there was some general awareness that women were far from being treated as full and equal members of the labor force, but this was not yet seen as a major social problem. A striking phenomenon of the 1960s, however, was the rise of a powerful movement among women for egalitarianism in all aspects of social living, including those aspects that bear upon work. The various ethnic minorities differ markedly from each other in social history, cultural characteristics, and in the social barriers they face. One of the chief problems faced by the disabled person is the existence of a vast body of folklore and traditional notions about disability that have accumulated over thousands of years. Disability may impair or limit certain functional abilities and aptitudes that are required by specific kinds of work. Disability may, under certain conditions, arrest, distort, or block the development of what we have earlier described as the work personality.
