Professional Inclusion of Women with Disabilities: A Bibliometric Study Focused on Intersectionality

The academic community is increasingly turning to studies exploring the intersectionality of women with disabilities and the sources of multiple discrimination. However, despite this growing literature, the professional inclusion of women with disabilities remains a major problem, with a global employment rate of less than 20%. In this context, it seems essential to facilitate the work of researchers by providing them with key benchmarks and recommendations based on an intersectional bibliometric analysis of the topic. This article therefore presents the results of a bibliometric analysis on the professional integration of women with disabilities, with a particular focus on intersectionality, based on a corpus of 1,810 articles from the Scopus database. The main findings highlight several important avenues for further research in this area. They also highlight the fact that existing publications remain general, focusing more on professional inclusion of diversity, and that they come from sources that are unevenly distributed geographically and economically. This underlines the need for greater academic attention to the specific issue of the professional integration of women with disabilities, in particular through the creation of more specialised research groups and the promotion of greater economic cooperation between countries in the north and south.