I wrote an article for the Japan Times recently about the following statistic: Only 19 per cent of disabled people of working age in Japan are in employment.
You can read the article here: Japan Times記事リンク（2023/5/22）
Here are a few words which appear in the article:
a stigma – a negative mark which is attached to behaviours, characteristics etc. which are seen as shameful
(eg. “He will always carry the stigma of having been in prison.”)
a self-fulfilling prophesy – A prediction
about what will happen in the future, which makes that future more likely to
come true
(eg. “For a sportsperson to believe that
they will lose the next match becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. They will try less hard, and are unlikely to
win.”)
a quota – A fixed share of something that a
certain group is entitled to receive
(eg. “A certain quota of the university’s
places is reserved for students who live locally.”)
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