Gender, Religion and Caste

Question 1

What are the laws concerning family matters such as marriage, divorce, adoption, et cetera?

Answer 1

Family laws

Question 2

Name the system where father is the head of the family

Answer 2

Patriarchy

Question 3

What does literacy rate mean?

Answer 3

Ratio of educated people among the whole population of country

Question 4

Gender division in society is based on what

Answer 4

Social expectations and stereotypes

Question 5

Who said that religion can never be separated from politics?

Answer 5

Mahatma Gandhi

Question 6

The scheduled Tribes are often referred to as what

Answer 6

Adivasis

Question 7

According to the consensus of India, 2001, the literacy rate for woman was what

Answer 7

54%

Question 8

Cording to the consensus of India, 2001, child sex ratio in India was what

Answer 8

927 girls per thousand boys

Question 9

What is the consensus of India 2011 the literacy rate for a woman is what

Answer 9

65.46%

Question 10

According to the consensus of India, 2011 the adult sex ratio in India is what

Answer 10

940 females per thousand males

Question 11

Woman’s share in the state assemblies in India is less than what

Answer 11

5%

Question 12

Urban areas the below the poverty line means what

Answer 12

Those who spent Rs.454 or less then per person per month

Question 13

How many seats for women or reserved in local government bodies?

Answer 13

One third

Question 14

Women’s Reservation Bill has been pending before the Parliament for more than how many years

Answer 14

A decade

Question 15

What is meant by sexual division of labour?

Answer 15

The system in which all work inside the home is either done by the woman of the family or organised by them through the domestic helpers

Question 16

Why did women in different parts of the world agitate?

Answer 16

They agitated for equal rights. They demanded enhancing the political and legal status of women and improving their education and career opportunities

Question 17

What did radical woman do?

Answer 17

Radical women led to movements that claimed that equality in personal and family life along with the quality and political and legal status

Question 18

What type of society do we live in?

Answer 18

We live in a male dominated or patriarchal society

Question 19

Why do girls drop out of school?

Answer 19

They drop out of school is because their parents prefer to spend their resources for their boys, education rather than spending equally on their sons and daughters

Question 20

What is the provision of the equal wages act?

Answer 20

The act provides that equal wages should be paid to equal work

Question 21

Can you say that the equal wages act is not implemented properly?

Answer 21

Non-must all areas home work from sports in cinema to factories in fields, women were paid less than men, even when they go to exactly the same work

Question 22

What has led to a decline in child sex ratio

Answer 22

Parents prefer to have sons and find ways to have a girl child apart it before she is born. Such sex selective abortion has led to a decline in child sex ratio.

Question 23

What Was Gandhiji’s opinion about religion?

Answer 23

Used to say that religion can never be separated from politics what he meant by religion was not any particular religion like in the vision or Islam, but moral values that inform all the rituals

Question 24

Which idea is communal politics based on?

Answer 24

Communal politics is based on the idea that religion is the principal basis of social community

Question 25

What does communalism in its extreme form lead to?

Answer 25

It leads to the believe that people belonging to different religions cannot live as equal citizens within one nation

Question 26

What is the most ugly form of communalism?

Answer 26

Most ugly form of communalism is communal violence, riots and massacre

Question 27

In which country is the participation of women in public life is very high

Answer 27

Sweden

Question 28

What is a secular state?

Answer 28

Secular state is a state in which the Constitution provides to all the individual and community is the freedom to profess practice and propagate any religion they wish or not to follow any religion if they wish so

Question 29

What is a feminist?

Answer 29

A person who believes in equal rights and opportunities for all human beings

Question 30

What is feminism?

Answer 30

Concerned with the empowerment of women and giving women equal status in the society as men

Question 31

What is urbanisation?

Answer 31

Shift of population from rural areas to urban areas