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Rashsundari Devi (1800-1890) was born in ______________.

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  1. West Bengal

  2. Orissa

  3. Uttar Pradesh

  4. Bihar

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Rashsundari Devi was born in Bengal in 1810, in Pabna. She was the most well known for her autobiography called Amar Jiban and was among the first few Bengali writers who had written autobiographies.

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain wrote a remarkable story titled 'Sultanas Dream' in 1905. This story imagined a woman called Sultana who reaches a place called 'Ladyland'. Ladyland is a place where women had the freedom to study, work, and create inventionslike controlling rain from the clouds and flying air cars.

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain commonly known as Begum Rokeya, was a Bengali feminist thinker, writer, educationist, political activist, an advocate of women's rights, and widely regarded as a pioneer of women's liberation in South Asia. She wrote her feminist utopian story 'Sultana's Dream' in 1905. It was published in the same year in Madras-based English periodical 'The Indian Ladies Magazine'. 
The story is based on an imagined Ladyland where women seem to have access to public spaces without being restricted by social or religious customs.

Dr. Muthu Lakshmi abolished __________.

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  1. Caste system

  2. Mirasdari system

  3. Devadasi system

  4. Non-Braminial movement

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Muthu Lakshmi was a prime reformer in abolishing the Devadasi system. Devadasi is a girl dedicated to worship and serve a deity or a temple for the rest of her life. 

The Madras Devadasi Prevention Act was enacted on 9th October, 1947. It gave legal rights to the devadasis to marry and made the practice illegal. 

"Poor girls drop out of school because they are not interested in getting an education" this statement is true or false. explain.

political science women change the world social aspects of gender and women's education position of women and major social evils women empowerment

  1. True.

  2. False.

  3. None of the above.

  4. Both A and B.

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The statement "Poor girls drop out of school because they are not interested in getting an education".  is false because in many parts of the country, especially in rural and poor areas, there may not even be proper schools nor teachers who teach on a regular basis.Parents are not willing to send their girl child to distant schools due to lack of transportation and unable to bear the cost of education.

Match Columns

Column I  Column II
(i) Campaigning (a) Individual and collective struggle of women
(ii) 1961 census (b) Passing of new laws
(iii) Women's movement (c) 40% literacy among boys
political science women change the world social aspects of gender and women's education position of women and major social evils women empowerment

  1. i a, ii b, iii c

  2. i b, ii c, iii a

  3. i c, ii a, iii b

  4. i c, ii b, iii a

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Campaigning is a method by which political parties bring forth to the citizens their agendas before elections, for which they usually promise to pass new laws. Campaigning is a tactic used to attract voters. Thus, it is an ideal match for passing new laws. Second in place, the 1961 Census of India records a literacy rate of 40.40 % among boys. And lastly, Women's movement represents the struggle of each woman that she faces in the domestic sphere, in educational institutions, at workplaces etc and also the discrimination that the community of women faces. Thus it is both an individual and a collective struggle.

List one reason why learning the alphabet was so important to women like Rashsundari Devi , Ramabai and Rokeya.

political science women change the world social aspects of gender and women's education position of women and major social evils women empowerment

  1. Achieve their goal only by education.

  2. Impact on society by writing their ideas .

  3. Both A and B.

  4. None of the above.

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Rashsundari Devi , Ramabai and Rokeya are able to achieve their goal only by education. they were able to put an impact on the society by writing their ideas or stories or setting up schools through which can never be achieved without learning.Thus , learning the alphabet was so important because it will not only help them in their day to day social life but help them in pursuing their education and dream.

Describe two methods of struggle that the women's movement used to raise issues?

political science women change the world social aspects of gender and women's education position of women and major social evils women empowerment

  1. Protesting.

  2. Raising awareness.

  3. Both A and B.

  4. None of the above.

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Protesting; In this method, public rallies and demonstrations were held by women to raise their voice against violations of law affecting them.
Raising awareness;  This helped in creating public awareness on women's rights issues through street plays, song, and public meetings.

Explain Discrimination __________________.

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  1. People not treated equally.

  2. People act on their prejudices.

  3. Make a distinction.

  4. All of the above.

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

When people not treated equally or with respect indulging in discrimination. It happens when people or organisations act on their prejudices. Discrimination usuallytakes place when we treat some one differently or make a distinction.

The Education Survey of 2003-04 revealed that the dropout rate from school was the highest in the ____ level.

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  1. Primary

  2. Middle

  3. Secondary

  4. Higher Secondary

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The 2003-2004 Education Survey revealed that a huge chunk of enrolled students drop out of school in the middle and the secondary school, particularly during the transition from class 1 to 2 and between 8th, 9th and 10th. A greater percentage of the drop outs were in Secondary school. What was also highlighted was the fact that most of these drop outs were females.

Efforts made by the women's movement led the _________ to formulate guidelines in 1997 to protect women against _________ at the workplace and within educational institutions.

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  1. Supreme Court; sexual harassment

  2. Supreme Court; domestic violence

  3. High Court; sexual harassment

  4. High Court; domestic harassment

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Note: We must understand that at a pan India level, it is the Supreme Court which is entitled to formulate guidelines, and not a particular High Court which mostly looks only after the state that it represents.

Sexual harassment was identified as a form of violence against women at workplaces and educational institutions,  in 1997, when the Supreme Court formulated the 'Vishaka guidelines' against sexual harassment. This was followed by the enactment of a full fledged law against such harassment in the year 2013.
Domestic violence entails violence within the confines of the domestic sphere. At a workplace and in educational institutions, sexual harassment is the most common form of violence.