According to recent studies, visually impaired women are at a higher risk of unemployment than visually impaired men or non-handicapped women. The following preliminary study examines the self-perceptions of 41 working-age visually impaired women to assess their effect on the women's views of employment opportunities. Researchers found that the visually impaired women perceived themselves as having substantially more barriers to employment than their sighted counterparts, and that this could have a critical impact on their pursuit of work.
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