ABSTRACT
T his chapter examines women’s contribution to the currentreform toward the full inclusion of people with developmentaldisabilities in everyday community life. Women constitute the vast majority of those who carry out the day-to-day work of facilitating the acceptance and inclusion of people with disabilities and perform the work necessary to enable them to be part of families, neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and other community environments. Despite this, there have been few attempts to examine women’s contributions to the reform. Women’s role in carrying out the reform remains largely invisible and unstudied. The reform seems to depend upon the availability of women’s unpaid labor in the home and low-paid labor within the service system, without mentioning them.
