Tag: social aspects of gender and women's education
Questions Related to social aspects of gender and women's education
The scheme enforced for the development of rural women was ______.
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Streeshakti
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Swayamsiddha
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Balika Samruddhi Yojana
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Rashtreeya Mahila Vimochana
The scheme was launched during 2000-01 with an objective to empower rural women and make them self-reliant by inculcating the habit of savings and proper utilization of financial resources. Stree Shakti Groups are formed at the village level to inculcate the savings habit in the members empowering the women economically. About 15 to 20 women members who are from below poverty line families, landless agricultural labourers, SC/ST women join together. Stree Shakti Groups are formed through Aanganwadi workers and taluka federations.
The lowest women participation in politics is in ______.
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India
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Europe
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America
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Arab states
According to the facts and figures provided by the UN Women Organisation, the average percentage of women parliamentarians is least in the Pacific region and the Arab States with 17% in the former and 17.8% in the latter States.
Who headed the National Women's Suffrage Association?
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Elizabeth Candy Stanton
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Lucy Stone
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Amelia Bloomer
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Elizabeth II
National Women's Suffrage Association (NWSA) was started in 1869 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in New York. NWSA worked to secure women's right to vote through a federal constitutional amendment. Stanton addressed issues such as women's parental, custody rights, property rights, employment, and income rights, divorce, birth control, etc.
Which one of the following is a case of discrimination against the girls?
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Girls perform better than boys in the school board examinations
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A small percentage of girls only enroll for higher studies
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The marriageable age of girls is 18 years whereas for boys, it is 21 years.
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Thirty-three per cent of seats in local self governments are reserved for women.
Marriageable age are declared for the betterment of both girls and boys .
This is declared by 61st amendment act of indian constitution.
What is gender division?
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Race and Caste
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Poor men and women in the society
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The hierarchical unequal roles assigned to men and women by the society
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None of these
- Gender divided society is the one which assigns unequal roles to men and women.
- Gender equal society assigns the rights equally to men and women.
The programme implemented by Government of Karnataka for the development of rural women is _______.
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Lokayukta
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Stree Shakti
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Sakshara Bharat
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Family planning programme.
The scheme was launched during 2000-01 with an objective to empower rural women and make them self reliant by inculcating the habit of savings and proper utilization of financial resources. Stree Shakti Groups are formed at the village level to inculcate the savings habit in the members empowering the women economically. About 15 to 20 women members who are from below poverty line families, landless agricultural labourers, SC/ST women join together. Stree Shakti Groups are formed through Aanganwadi workers and taluka federations.
Family laws of all religions ________.
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Discriminate against men
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Protect women
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Discriminate against women
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Neutral towards gender
Women’s movement has argued that FAMILY LAWS of all religions discriminate against women. So they have demanded that government should change these laws to make them more equitable.
What is the average child sex ratio in India?
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$933$
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$833$
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$999$
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None of these
- Child Sex Ratio defined as the number of females per thousand males in the age group 0–6 years in a human population.
- Child Sex Ratio in 2011 Census is 919.
Who became the first woman engine driver for Northern Railways?
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Laxmi Lakra
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Bachendri Pal
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Santoshi Yadav
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Kiran Bedi
Laxmi Lakra was the first woman to join the Northern Railways in India as an engine driver and the second woman to join the Central Railways, only after Surekha Yadav. Laxmi Lakra hailed from Jharkhand and is an inspiration to many, because she broke the stereotype by choosing a male dominated profession.
__________ means a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
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Stereotype
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Unconventional
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Original
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Fresh
A stereotype is a belief or set of beliefs that are fixed and usually wrong, in a manner that it generalizes a certain subject or object for which the stereotype is used. For instance, the idea boys don't cry, is a stereotype that fixes a certain idea of holding back tears to each and every boy, irrespective of their personal characteristics. It is a fixed belief that the society has set up for an entire community of boys, disregarding their characteristics.