In employment guidance services, especially those for people with disabilities, it is important to note that women with disabilities have greater difficulties in accessing the labour market than men with disabilities. Women users who come to seek employment face multiple difficulties, as many of them suffer discrimination based on gender, disability, ethnicity, religion, family culture, gender violence, dependency... and all this is reflected in the data provided by the European Strategy 2021/2030.

Taking into account the above information, we consider it necessary to adapt the guidance process for women with disabilities in a specific way, taking into account all the variables that directly or indirectly influence their integration into the labour market, and to work with them on a comprehensive level, on all those aspects that may condition the implementation of a personalised integration itinerary that will lead them to achieve their objectives, both in terms of
employment and personal development. To this end, in the development of our project we are going to elaborate a manual, which will serve as a guide for the guidance professionals to carry out their attention from a gender perspective, ith the necessary contents to offer individualised and specific attention to women with disabilities. To complement the guidance manual, we are going to elaborate an empowerment booklet for women with disabilities. This booklet can be
used by the counsellors themselves to work with their clients, especially with those in whom low self-esteem or other problems of social positioning are detected. With the activities proposed in the workbook, it will also be possible to identify whether the woman with whom they are working may be or have been a victim of some kind of gender-based violence.

This aspect is more common than we think in the group of women and girls with disabilities, and often difficult to detect. If we come across a case of this kind, the booklet will include a section with recommendations for counselling professionals on how to act in these cases and resources to seek support from institutions specialised in caring for women in vulnerable situations.

Finally, we are going to produce a brochure highlighting the benefits of hiring women, both economically and socially. This brochure will be useful for the labour intermediaries and companies themselves, so that they are aware of the possibility of hiring a woman with a disability as a first option, eliminating prejudices, labels and barriers that women with disabilities have been encountering in accessing the labour market.

According to the European Disability Strategy (2021-2030), one in six people in the European Union has a disability, amounting to some 80 million people. Women with disabilities represent 16 % of the total female population in Europe (more than 40 million women) and continue to face multiple and intersectional discrimination based on their disability.

And only 18.8 % of women with disabilities are employed. The high unemployment rate makes them more likely to live in conditions of poverty and social exclusion, as well as less likely to achieve the independence that would allow them to overcome other problems such as: barriers to mobility, family dependency, sexual harassment, etc.

The European Parliament adopted on Thursday 18 June 2020 a resolution urging the Commission to present a European Disability Strategy, including a strong gender focus, and calls on the Commission to ensure the inclusion of a crosssectoral and gender-sensitive approach to combat the multiple forms of discrimination faced by women with disabilities. It insists that disaggregated data be collected to identify the forms of multiple and intersectional discrimination faced by women with disabilities.

Based on the above data and in support of the European guidelines to include the gender perspective in all areas involved in improving the quality of life of women with disabilities, we want to develop a project that unifies the models of employment guidance and care in employment services for women with disabilities in Europe.

According to the data provided in previous sections, the reality in which women with disabilities live in Europe is a problem that needs to be taken into account. Up to now, we have always talked about people with disabilities in general, but the difference in the socio-economic situation between men and women with disabilities has not been reflected.

From the political strategies, a lot of work is being done from a gender perspective in any field, and we want to highlight the importance of implementing this perspective with women with disabilities, who often suffer not only because they are women, but also because of the double discrimination they suffer because they have a disability.

The organisations that make up this consortium want to contribute our involvement in this social change through the areas in which we are professionals and which we deal with on a daily basis. We want change to come from within ourselves. The daily activities in which we carry out our work are related to career guidance, employment and fight for the rights of women with disabilities. The project we propose is an opportunity to unite the gender perspective in vocational guidance in different countries in Europe, thus reaching a greater number of women and promoting equal opportunities regardless of the territory in which they live. But in order to carry out this project we need financial support, otherwise it would not be viable for the organisations to meet the costs that this type of work generates. And also thanks to this type of cooperation partnerships give the opportunity to work with entities from other countries in Europe, promoting collaborative work and the creation of a European identity.