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Grassroots network seeks end to multiple discrimination faced by disabled women
After moving with her family from Aichi Prefecture to the Kanto region, Sadako Sasaki -- who is completely blind -- began to face gossip when neighbors learned of her disability. "People started to say things like, 'How sad for her kids. I wonder who cooks for them?'" she recounted. "It made me feel like I was being discriminated against on two separate levels. First, people were assuming that blind people couldn't cook. And secondly, they assumed that since I'm a woman, it was me who was supposed to be doing the cooking in the first place." Read more from http://mainichi.jp/english/english/features/news/20140118p2a00m0na021000c.html
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When: 05/2/2014
