Answer: Protection of women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005
Answer: Protection of women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005
Answer: A developing human organism after fertilization till the end of eight weeks (fifty six days)
(a) Increase in maternity benefit from 12 weeks to 26 weeks for two surviving children and 12 weeks for more then two children
(b) 12 weeks maternity benefit to a ‘Commissioning Mother’ and ‘Adopting Mother’
(c) Doing away with ‘work for home’
(d) Mandatory provision of creche in respect of establishment having 50 or more employees
Code :Answer: (a), (b) and (d) are correct
Assertion (A) : The entire socio-cultural milieu constituting the construction of gender in caste society is a construction that radically devalues the status of women in caste ridden societies.
Reason (R) : The emergence of new classes has meant control of women in new and different forms from those under the caste system.
Code :Answer: Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is not correct explanation for (A).
Answer: Coordinate between the services provided by concerned ministries and NGO’s
Answer: Gender equality and Clean water and sanitation
Answer: It is a socio-economic index usually designed to measure the relative access to education of males and females.
(a) Champion rights and gender equality issues through editorial articles, features and news coverage
(b) To ensure guidelines for gender sensitive reporting
(c) To ensure production of highquality stories with a focus on gender equality and women’s rights
(d) To ensure that women journalists are given higher opportunities than their male colleagues in the news rooms
Code :Answer: (a), (b) and (c) only
Answer: 21.5% to 17.7%
(a) Prevention of Gender based sex selective abortion.
(b) Ensuring survival and protection of girl child.
(c) Ensuring vocational training to girl child.
(d) Ensuring education and participation of the girl child.
Code :Answer: (a), (b) and (d) only
(a) Low share of women in Parliament
(b) Low female labour force participation rate compared to men
(c) Lack of women in policy making bodies
(d) Prevalence of teenage mothers
Code :Answer: (a), (b) and (d) only
(a) Monitoring timely submission of reports by the internal committee.
(b) Providing a safe working environment at work place.
(c) Requesting the women employees to dress appropriately.
(d) Treating sexual harassment as misconduct under the service rules and initiate action for such misconduct.
Code :Answer: (a), (b) and (d) only
(a) Both are social
(b) Both are physical
(c) In both, the people at the bottom of social ladder suffer even in their own households
(d) In both, the people at the lower rung of the social ladder suffer the atrocities in society
Code :Answer: (a), (b) and (d) only
Answer: By attempting to equalize outcomes both for men and women
Assertion (A) : It is difficult to define equality of opportunity without considering how actual outcomes are distributed.
Reason (R) : Persistent differences in power and status between men and women can become internalized in aspirations, behaviours, and preferences that perpetuate the inequalities.
Code :Answer: Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is correct explanation for (A).