Women consistently earn less than men. This holds true for individuals with and without disabilities. Women with disabilities, however, have more negative employment experiences than do men with disabilities. The purpose of this article is to explore the less than desirable conditions that women with disabilities face in employment.Studies dealing primarily with the employment outcomes of females and males with disabilities are reviewed, followed by recommendations for the field of special education. We suggest that women with disabilities are dually disadvantaged in employment when gender interacts with disability.Historically, women have earned less than men for comparable employment. Unpaid household and domestic tasks traditionally performed by womenhave only recently begun to be recognized by the public as hard work. Today, when two out of every three adults in poverty are female (Sidel, 1986), many women now work for survival. Constituting over half the population as well as the labor force, women in 1989 earned only 68% of men's wages (Crispell, 1991). Although the earnings gap has narrowed, some women are still not viewed as equal to men in occupational competence. Some of the problems females face in employment can be traced to the manner in which they were socialized (Maccoby & Jacklin, 1974). Socialization is the process through which we acquire personal identity, values, and preferences through experiences. Matlin (1987) reported that some of the major agents of socialization-family, friends, and the media-perpetuate sex-typing, or internalization of personality attributes that characterize each gender. Moreover, Matlin also found that children as young as 3 years old hold stereotyped views concerning occupations appropriate for men and women. Little girls learn from the world around them that femininity involves beauty, passivity, and nurturance, whereas young boys are socialized to become strong breadwinners. Barriers to women's career development have been categorized as social, or externally caused, and personal, or internally caused (Lunnenborg 8c Wilson, 1982). Social barriers include the earnings gap, occupational stereotypes, and the gender division of the labor market. Personal barriers involve traits and attitudes that were reinforced and socialized beginning in childhood. These include fear of competitiveness, sex norms, limited self-esteem, low motivation for leadership, Address: Sally A. Fulton, 5222 High Point-Wallburg Road, High Point, NC 27265.