Unpacking Gender| Questions and Answers

Unpacking Gender-Questions and Answers

I. Choose the correct option:

    1. The most primary unit of a society is:

        a. Person    b. Family    c. Father    d. Mother

Ans: b. Family

    2.  Which of the following was not a reformer who fought for the women upliftment?

        a. Ram Mohan Roy    b. Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar    c. Syed Ahmed Khan    d. Dayanand Saraswati

Ans: c. Syed Ahmed Khan

    3. The five year plan from which women's issues were focussed on:

        a. 1970-75    b. 1974-78    c. 1978-83    d.1950-55

Ans: b. 1974-78

    4. National Women's Commission was set up in:

        a. 1950    b. 1960    c. 1970    d. 1990

Ans: d. 1990

II. True or False:

    1. There is no inequality of gender in society.

Ans: False

    2. People prefer the birth of a male child.

Ans: True

    3. Parents never discriminate between male and female children.

Ans: True

    4. Women always like to stay home and look after children.

Ans: False

    5. In contemporary societies, women play an equal role if they get the opportunities.

Ans: True

III. Complete the following sentences:

    1. Women worked at home while men work outside.

    2. More men have started involving themselves in Childcare and Parenting.

    3. The girl child was trained to manage her home.

    4. Many women have taken up careers that were earlier reserved for men.

    5. The government has passed the Right to inherit property.

IV. Answer the following questions:

    1. Why were women considered inferior to men?

Ans: Women are considered inferior to men since women bear children and nurse infants and also women often work in the house while men work outside.

    2. How does the girl child face discrimination at home?

Ans: A girl child faces discrimination at home by the way that the male child is likely to get better food, clothes, education, and care as compared to the girl child.

    3. Why do parents not like to spend money on a girl's education?

Ans: Since the girl is expected to marry and live with her in-laws, therefore parents do not want to waste too much money on educating the girl child.

    

    4. What are the changes in the position of women today?

Ans: Broad cultural changes have resulted in new trends in attitudes towards women. Careers that were exclusively reserved for men now have women members too.

    5. Why are these women famous?

        a. Aruna Asaf Ali

Ans: Educator, Political Activist, and Publisher

        b. Sarojini Naidu

Ans: Political Activist and Poet

        c. Shabana Azami

Ans: Actress and Social Activist

        d. Rani Laxmi Bai

Ans: Freedom Fighter

        e. Anju Bobby George

Ans: Athlete

        f. Annie Besant

Ans: Socialist, Writer, Orator, and Educationist