Opinions on the first National Report of Korea on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was three times higher than women without disabilities and two times higher than men with disabilities. ③ The percentage of women with disabilities with a bachelor degree or higher was 5.9%, while that of women without disabilities was 32.9%, with men with disabilities at 16.5% and men without disabilities at 46.3%. The proportion of women with disabilities with a bachelor degree was approx. six times lower than women without disabilities and three times lower than men with disabilities. Furthermore, the employment rate of women with disabilities was 22.7%, representing only half the average employment rate of all women (48.1%) and disabled men (44.8%). ④ The 2012 White Paper on Persons with Disabilities (Korea Disabled People’s Development Institute, Dec. 2012) points out that the exclusion of women with disabilities from educational opportunities ultimately leads them to difficulties in employment and, after employment, poor working conditions and low wages, creating a vicious cycle of poverty among women with disabilities. 2) Recommendation ① In order to increase educational opportunities for women with disabilities who are considerably marginalized from formal education compared to men with disabilities and women without disabilities, plans must be devised and implemented to strengthen education for women with disabilities, and to put in place educational infrastructures for them, such as increase of educational facilities and diversification of education contents. NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF KOREA 8