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Published on: 13/12/2018
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1.
How was campaigning used as a tool in women's movements?
2.
Read the extract and answer the questions given below:
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain knew how to read and write Urdu, she was stopped from learning Bangla and English. In those days, English was seen as a language that would expose girls to new ideas, which people thought were not correct for them. Rokeya learnt to read and write Bangla and English with the support of her elder brother and an elder sister. She went on to become a writer. She wrote a remarkable story titled Sultana's Dream in 1905 to practice her English skills when she was merely 25 years old. 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 inventions like controlling rain from the clouds and flying air cars.
What are values of the Rokeya's character highlighted in the passage?
3.
Write about various social groups and their schooling.
4.
List one reason why learning the alphabet was so important to women like Rashsundari Devi, Ramabai and Rokeya?
5.
How does your class exercise compare with Rosie Ma'am's class exercise?
Rosie Ma'am's class has 30 children. She did the same exercise in her class and here is the result.
| Category | Male image | Female image |
| Teacher | 5 | 25 |
| Farmer | 30 | 0 |
| Factory worker | 25 | 5 |
| Nurse | 0 | 30 |
| Scientist | 25 | 5 |
| Pilot | 27 | 3 |
6.
The guidance formulated by Supreme Court of India in 1997to protect women against:
Sexual harassment
Dowry death
Domestic violence
None of these
7.
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain started a school for:
Boys
Girls
Both (a) and (b)
Adults
8.
Where was Rashsundari Devi born?
Maharashtra
WestBengal
Tamil Nadu
Kerala
9.
Passage of law on domestic violence in 2006 was the result of
raising awareness
protesting
campaigning
showing solidarity
10.
Amar Jiban was written by
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Ramabai
Rashsundari Devi
Satyarani
11.
In today's world, women are succeeding in every field. Discuss the life of any such women achiever of independent India.
12.
Write down any three methods of struggle adopted by women's movements.
13.
What do you mean by women's movement?
14.
Why many girls do not continue their education?
15.
Which are the two languages Rokeya Sakhawat learned?
16.
What are stereotypes?
17.
Define solidarity.
18.
How is International Women's Day celebrated?
19.
What happened in 19th century?
20.
Who was the first woman engine driver for Northern Railways?
21.
Why according to stereotypes, girls can't study science?
22.
How much percentage of women are engaged in agricultural work in India?
23.
What are the various ways women's apply to fight discrimination and seek justice?
24.
Why the children from Dalit and Adivasi community leave school?
1.
Campaigns are an important part of women's movement. These led to passing of certain laws. Women's movement have been able to achieve success in this way.
(i)A law was passed in 2006 to give protection to women against domestic violence.
(ii) In 1997 Supreme court promulgated guidelines to protect women against sexual harassment.
(iii) In the 1980's due to campaigns and media support dowry laws were changed to punish families who sought dowry.
(iv) 8th March is celebrated as International Women's Day.
2.
The passage highlights that Rokeya was of independent ideas, creative and had the ability and eagerness to learn.
3.
There are several social groups such as Scheduled Castes (SCs) (official term for Dalits) Schedule Tribes (STs) official term for Adivasis, Muslim Communities, etc. It has been observed that girls belonging to SC and ST communities are less likely to remain in school and girls from Muslim community drop out without even completing their primary school. Girls from SC and ST communities remain in school for around four years where as Muslim girls spend just three years.
4.
Learning the alphabet was important to these women because by learning they could share their thoughts and views with the society through stories, writings and autobiography.
5.
Our class exercise is comparable to that of Rosie Ma'am's class exercise.
In both the Exercises
(i) Females are more in teaching profession than males.
(ii) Not a single woman is engaged as farmer in Rosie's exercise but in our exercise, a few women are engaged as farmers.
(iii) Very few women work in factories.
(iv) No man works as a nurse in both the exercises.
(v) The number of women is far less as scientists.
(vi) Likewise, very few females are pilots.
6.
(a)
Sexual harassment
7.
(b)
Girls
8.
(b)
WestBengal
9.
(c)
campaigning
10.
(c)
Rashsundari Devi
11.
Arundhati Bhattacharya is an Indian banker and the chairperson of State Bank of India, the leading public sector bank of India. Bhattacharya was born in a Bengali family in the city of Kolkata. She spent her childhood in Bhilai. Her father, Prodyut Kumar Mukherjee worked at Bokaro Steel Plant. Her mother, Kalyani Mukherjee was a homeopathy consultant in Bokaro.
She completed her schooling from St. Xavier's School, Bokaro. She studied English Literature at Calcutta's Lady Brabourne College and then at [adavpur University. Bhattacharya joined SBI in September 1977. She is the first woman to lead an India-based Fortune India 500 company. Initially, she joined SBIin 1977 as a Probationary Officer at the age of 22 years
She has held several positions during her 36-year career with the bank including working in foreign exchange,' treasury, retail operations, human resources and investment banking. She introduced a two-year sabbatical leave policy for the bank's female employees to use either for maternity or elder care. On Women's day, she announced free vaccination against cervical cancer to all the bank's female employees.
In 2016, she was named the 25th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. This is her first time being ranked on the list. In the same year, she was ranked among the FP Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine. She was named the 4th most powerful women in Asia Pacific by Fortune. In 2017, India Today magazine ranked her on 19th position in India's 50 most powerful people of 2017 list.
12.
Three methods of struggle adopted by women's movements are
(i) Campaigning
Campaigns are a significant part of women's movement to fight discrimination and violence. Several laws have been passed as a result of campaigning
(a) A law regarding domestic violence was passed in 2006 so that women can be legally protected against physical and mental violence within their homes.
(b) The Supreme Court formed guidelines in 1997 to protect women from sexual harassment at workplace and in educational institutions.
(c) Case regarding dowry deaths was being raised by women's groups in 1980s which made it a public issue in newspapers and society. Dowry laws were also changed to punish families who ask for dowry.
(ii) Raising Awareness
It is to raise public awareness about women's rights issues through street plays, songs and public meetings. They are significant part of women's movement.
(iii) Protesting
Protesting and raising voice against violations in the form of public rallies and demonstrations help in drawing attention to injustices.
13.
( )
Women as a whole struggled for long to bring out all round improvement in women's condition. This is known as the Women's Movement.
14.
( )
Many girls do not continue their education due to poverty and discrimination.
15.
( )
Rokeya Sakhawat learned to read and write Bangia and English.
16.
( )
When it is believed that people belonging to certain groups based on religion, wealth, language, sex etc. would behave in a particular manner, we create a stereotype. For example, people believe that girls or boys will behave in a certain manner.
17.
( )
It is a feeling of unity between people who have the same interests and goals.
18.
( )
On International Women's Day, women all over the world come together to celebrate and renew their struggles.
19.
( )
In the 19th century, many new ideas about education and learning emerged.
20.
( )
Laxmi Lakra, a woman from a poor tribal family in Jharkhand, was the first woman engine driver.
21.
( )
According to stereotypes, girls can't study science because it requires a technical mind and girls and women are not capable of dealing with technical things.
22.
( )
83.6% of women are engaged in agricultural work in India.
23.
The various ways women apply to fight discrimination and seek justice are:
Campaigning:
(i) It is an important part of the Women's Movement. Campaigns have led to new laws being passed in 2006 to give legal protection to those women who face physical and mental violence within their homes, also called domestic violence.
(ii) The efforts made by the Women's Movement led the Supreme Court to formulate guidelines in 1997 to protect women against sexual harassment at the workplace and within educational institutions.
(iii) In the 1980s, for example, women's groups across the country also campaigned for bringing justice to those families which have became prey to dowry deaths. Finally, this became a public issue in the newspapers and society, and the dowry laws were changed to punish families who seek dowry.
Raising Awareness: Women, in order to fight against discrimination, work hard to raise public awareness on women's right issues. They do so through several means such as street plays, songs and public meetings.
Protesting: When a law or policy acts against the interests of the women, the movement raises its voice by holding public rallies and demonstrations. These are the powerful way of drawing attention to injustices.
Showing Solidarity: The Women's Movement is also about showing solidarity with other women and causes.
24.
There are several reasons for, why children from Dalit, Adivasi and Muslim communities leave school. They are :
(i)Many children also leave schools because they are discriminated against by their teachers and classmates.
(ii) Schools are not close to people's homes, and hardly any transport is available so the parents may not be willing to send their children to far off places.
(iii) Many families are poor and unable to bear the cost of educating all their children.
(iv) In many parts of the country, especially in rural and poor areas, there are no proper schools and teachers who can teach on a regular basis.
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