<P> Women with disabilities encounter more frequent domestic abuse with a greater number of abusers . Health care workers and personal care attendants perpetrated abuse in these circumstances, and women with disabilities have fewer options for escaping the abusive situation . There is a "silence" principle concerning the intersectionality of women and disability, which maintains that there is an overall social denial of the prevalence of the abused and disabled and this abuse is frequently ignored when encountered . A paradox is presented by the overprotection of people with disabilities combined with the expectations of promiscuous behavior of disabled women . This is met with limitations of autonomy and isolation of the individuals, which place women with disabilities in situations where further or more frequent abuse can occur . </P> <P> According to Rebecca Reilly - Cooper intersectionality relies heavily on standpoint theory, which has its own set of criticisms . Intersectionality posits that an oppressed person is often the best person to judge their experience of oppression; however, this can create paradoxes when people who are similarly oppressed have different interpretations of similar events . Such paradoxes make it very difficult to synthesize a common actionable cause based on subjective testimony alone . </P> <P> Some commentators have claimed intersectionality can demonstrate a narrative of disadvantage with regards to black women's pay over other groups considered statistically to be underprivileged, others, especially those based on multiple intersections of oppression are more complex . </P> <P> Intersectional theory sees class as just another intersection, while economic class has a far more complex relationship with other marginalized identities . Marginalized people typically earn less than non-marginalized people, meaning marginalized are more likely to be economically oppressed as well . In this sense economic class is a mechanism of oppression, not just another intersection . For this reason, many marginalized groups can find common cause fighting economic oppression . Coatoan said "To say that poor people of color, queers, or immigrants are not interested or not profoundly impacted by the economy, and instead interested only in reaffirming their identities within existing hierarchies of power, is to work within a rigged zero - sum game for the liberation of a particular oppressed identity at the expense of all the others ." Michael Rectenwald accuses intersectional theorists of furthering a neoliberal agenda by discussing only the distribution of resources within our current system of income inequality, without questioning income inequality itself . </P>

How does studying global stratification reinforce a need to take an intersectional approach