Women Change The World

Fewer Opportunities and Rigid Expectations

• People think that men and women are meant to do specific works.
• The reason they did this is because they feel that outside the home too, women are good at only certain jobs.

→ Many people believe in these stereotypes, many girls do not get the same support that boys do to study and train to become doctors and engineers.

Learning for Change

• Today, it is difficult for us to imagine that school and learning could be seen as not appropriate for some children.
• In the past, the skill of reading and writing was known to only a few.
• In the nineteenth century, many new ideas about education and learning emerged.

Schooling and Education Today

• Today, both boys and girls attend school in large numbers.
• There still remain differences between the education of boys and girls.
• According to the 1961 census, about 40 per cent of all boys and men (7 years old and above) were literate compared to just 15 per cent of all girls and women.
• In the most recent census of 2011, these figures have grown to 82 per cent for boys and men, and 65 per cent for girls and women.

→ The percentage of the male group is still higher than the female group.

→ SC and ST girls leave school at a rate that is higher than the category ‘All Girls’.

→ The 2011 census also found that Muslim girls are less likely, than Dalit and Adivasi girls, to complete primary school.

Women’s Movement

• Women and girls now have the right to study and go to school.
• Women individually, and collectively have struggled to bring about these changes. This struggle is known as the Women’s Movement.
• Many men support the women’s movement as well.

Campaigning

• Campaigns to fight discrimination and violence against women are an important part of the women’s movement.

→ A law was made in 2006 to give women who face physical and mental violence within their homes, also called domestic violence, some legal protection.

Raising Awareness

• The women’s movements’ message has been spread through street plays, songs and public meetings.

Protesting

• The women’s movement raises its voice when violations against women take place.

Showing Solidarity

• The women’s movement is also about showing solidarity with other women and causes.

MCQs

1. Women work in agricultural sector includes

(a) planting, weeding, harvesting and threshing

(b) planting, seeding, harvesting and digging

(c) planting, weeding, harvesting and digging

(d) planting, seeding, harvesting and playing

► (a) planting, weeding, harvesting and threshing

2. The 2001 census also found that ____ girls are less likely, than ____ girls, to complete primary school

(a) Muslim, Dalit and Adivasi

(b) Adivasi, Dalit and Muslims

(c) Dalit, Hindu and Adivasi

(d) Hindu, Dalit and Muslims

► (a) Muslim, Dalit and Adivasi

3. The provision of ___ helps many women to take up employment outside the home

(a) Hospital

(b) Law

(c) Creches

(d) Court

► (c) Creches

4. According to the 1961 census, about ___ per cent of all boys and men and __ per cent of all girls and women

(a) 10, 15

(b) 40, 15

(c) 20, 25

(d) 30, 65

► (b) 40, 15

5. This refers to physical or verbal behaviour that is of a sexual nature and against the wishes of a woman.

(a) Male harassment

(b) Sexual harassment

(c) Gender harassment

(d) Domestic harassment

► (b) Sexual harassment

6. Earlier it was believed that if a woman learnt to read and write

(a) she would bring bad luck to her society

(b) she would bring bad luck to her family

(c) she would bring bad luck to her husband and become a widow

(d) she would bring bad luck to her children

► (c) she would bring bad luck to her husband and become a widow

7. What can you say about the work of men and women

(a) Women work should be valued more than men

(b) Should devalued the work of men and women

(c) Should be equally valued

(d) Men work should be valued more than women

► (c) Should be equally valued

8. According to Rokeya Sakhawat lady land is a place where

(a) Land build by ladies

(b) Lady have freedom to study and work

(c) Lot of Ladies are living

(d) Ladies owned lot of land

► (b) Lady have freedom to study and work

9. The Samoan Islands are part of a large group of small islands in the southern part of the

(a) Indian Ocean

(b) Antarctic Ocean

(c) Arctic Ocean

(d) Pacific Ocean

► (d) Pacific Ocean

10. Following points show the preference is given to boys as compared to girls except

(a) Boys are given more opportunities as given to girls.

(b) The boys are considered to be bread earnings

(c) The birth of a girl is considered more important and is regarded as auspicious

(d) The female child is considered liability of the family

► (c) The birth of a girl is considered more important and is regarded as auspicious

11. Indian woman who first wrote autobiography

(a) Rokeya

(b) Rashsundari

(c) Ramabai

(d) Laxmibai

► (b) Rashsundari

12. In the ____, according to research reports on Samoan society, children did not go to school. They learnt many things, such as how to take care of children or do household work from older children and from adults

(a) 1950

(b) 1940

(c) 1930

(d) 1920

► (d) 1920

13. What did girls learn after the age of 14 years

(a) Learning to weave basket

(b) Doing plantation

(c) Learning cooking

(d) All of these

► (d) All of these

14. A law was passed in ____ to give women who face physical and mental violence within their homes, also called domestic violence, some legal protection

(a) 2004

(b) 2005

(c) 2007

(d) 2006

► (d) 2006