Deck 1: Gender and Women Empowerment

Question 1

The term which literally means a 'pure and virtuous woman' is:

A)Abolished
B)Excluded
C)Sati
D)Satya

Answer 1

Sati

Question 2

Who gave emphasis on the liberation of the Hindu Society by 'Go back to the Veda' ?

A)Arya samaj
B)Brahmo samaj
C)Ancient samaj
D)Education

Answer 2

Arya samaj

Question 3

Who founded the Atmiya Sabha in 1815 and the Brahmo Samaj on 20th August 1828?

A)Vivekanand
B)Raja RamMohan Ro
C)Swami Dayanand Saraswati
D)Bhimsen

Answer 3

Raja RamMohan Ro

Question 4

Which is not  the scheme & programme for women empowerment?

A)SSA
B)Ladli
C)NCR
D)Kasturba Gandhi

Question 5

Who worked very hard for years to stop the practice of 'Sati'.

A)Vivekanand
B)Raja RamMohan Roy
C)Swami Dayanand Saraswati
D)Bhimsen

Question 6

Who advocated the abolition of polygamy (a practice of a man having more than one wife) and child marriage?

A)Vivekanand
B)Raja RamMohan Roy
C)Swami Dayanand Saraswati
D)Bhimsen

Question 7

Which commission constituted the National Commission for Women as a statutory body. The first commission of this was constituted on 31st January 1992 with Mrs. Jayanti

A)The National Commission for Women Act, 1990
B)The National Commission for Women Act, 1991(Act No. 20 of
C)The National Commission for Women Act, 1992 (Act
D)The National Commission

Question 8

Dowry Prohibition Act came in which year?

A)1961
B)1963
C)1965
D)1968

Question 9

It was a period of feminist activity and thought that occurred during the 19th and early 20th century throughout the Western world. It focused on legal issues, primarily on gaining the right to vote.

A)First-wave feminism
B)Second-wave feminism
C)Third-wave feminism
D)Fourth- wave feminism

Question 10

Which feminism is a perspective within feminism that calls for a radical reordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated in all social and economic contexts?

A)Radical
B)Postmodernists
C)Black
D)White

Question 11

The movement of which feminism is said to have arisen out of the realization that women are of many colors, ethnicities, nationalities, religions and cultural backgrounds.

A)First-wave feminism
B)Second-wave feminism
C)Third-wave feminism
D)Fourth- wave feminism

Question 12

Which of the following is not a four feminist approaches to educational intervention?

A)Ancient theory
B)Gender difference
C)Structural theory
D)Deconstructiv e theory

Question 13

It is one's sense of one's own gender. It is the result of socialization, but it also has a biological basis.

A)Gender identity
B)Sex
C)Sexuality
D)Transgender

Question 14

Which theory of feminism argue that girls can meet the same academic standards as boys, provided they face no negative intervention from different socializing agents.

A)Socialisation theory
B)Gender difference
C)Structural theory
D)Deconstructiv e theory

Question 15

Which feminist philosophy is a version of feminism whose primary focus concerns, at least to some degree, Black women from within African contexts.

A)Radical
B)Postmodern
C)Black
D)White

Question 16

Which one is the formal agency of socialization?

A)Family
B)School
C)Peer
D)Neighbourhood

Question 17

Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 states which law?

A)laws related to dowry
B)laws related to divorce
C)laws related to rape
D)laws related to

Question 18

It is a social process in which both individual and other social processes are intrinsically related.

A)Social construction
B)Society
C)Relationship
D)Community

Question 19

Culturally Responsive Classroom Management approach can be used for:

A)Gender Stereotypes
B)Overcoming Gender Stere
C)Gender roles

Question 20

"In my textbooks, I learned that only men are doctors." it is an example of:

A)Gender equality
B)Gender inequality
C)Reproducing Gender in S
D)Gender disparit

Question 21

It refers to the biological characteristics or natural biological differences between men and women, for example, the differences in the organs related to reproduction.

A)sex
B)gender
C)sexuality
D)identity

Question 22

It is the rule of the father over all women in the family and also over younger socially and economically subordinate males.

A)patriarchy
B)matriarchy
C)polygamy
D)matrilineal

Question 23

In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, in which Draupadi, daughter of the king of Panchala, is married to five

A)Polygamy
B)Polineal
C)Polyandry
D)Patriarchy

Question 24

It refers to policies and measures designed to increase the degree of autonomy and self-determination in the lives of people and in communities in order to enable them to represent their interests in a responsible and self- determined way, acting (again) on their own authority.

A)Discrimination
B)Equality
C)Equity
D)Empowerment

Question 25

The movie 'KI KA' is an example of:

A)Gender Stereotypes
B)Overcoming Gender Stere
C)Gender roles
D)Overcoming gender roles

Question 26

For working towards gender equality in the classroom which strategy is correct?

A)inclusive language
B)exclusive practices
C)unequal tasks
D)away from fam