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(1) Linguist sexism is a problem studied primarily by analysts using __________ perspective.
(1) Feminist
(2) Interactionist
(3) Functionalist
(4) Conflict
Answer: Interactionist
(2) Among the following liberal feminist who had the view that “so long as a woman is permitted to enter and leave the labour market at will, she is fully liberated” ?
(1) J.S. Mill
(2) Harriet Taylor
(3) Betty Friedan
(4) Elizabeth Holtzman
Answer: J.S. Mill

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(3)

Assertion (A) : Women’s studies began with high hopes about the transformative potential of new knowledge to remove invisibility of women.

Reason (R) : Women’s studies failed to realize that knowledge is not enough to counter centuries of prejudice, inbuilt biases and rigid ways of thinking.

Codes :
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true
(2) Both (A) and (R) are false
(3) Both (A) and (R) are true, (R) is the correct explanation for (A)
(4) (A) is true (R) is false
Answer: Both (A) and (R) are true
(4) Who made the statement “women are not powerless because they are faminine, rather they are feminine because they are powerless, because it is a way of dealing with the requirements of subordination” ?
(1) Eve Ensler
(2) Sarojini Naidu
(3) Kathy E. Fergoson
(4) Sherry Ortner
Answer: Kathy E. Fergoson
(5) Which is not correct about Gender responsive Budget ?
(1) Gender Budgeting does not seek to create a separate Budget but to provide affirmative action to address the specific needs of women.
(2) Gender Budgeting is an accounting exercise or say a process to ensure that benefits of development should reach all the minorities.
(3) Gender Budgeting involves dissection of the Government budget to establish its genderdifferential impacts and to translate gender commitments into budgetary commitments.
(4) Gender Budgeting entails maintaining a gender perspective at various stages like programmes/policy formulation etc.
Answer: Gender Budgeting is an accounting exercise or say a process to ensure that benefits of development should reach all the minorities.
(6) Who argued that “The inferior position of women is attributed to the institution of private property” ?
(1) Karl Mark
(2) Dalla Costa
(3) Clara Zetkin
(4) Engels
Answer: Engels
(7) In which data collection technique, the researcher has the maximum degree of personal involvement with the respondents ?
(1) Unstructured interview
(2) Structured interview
(3) Participant observation
(4) Mailed Questionnaire
Answer: Participant observation
(8) Honour killing has been explained as a brutal and barbaric death meeted out to a woman on bringing dishonour to the family, class or community by :

(a) marrying against the wishes of the parents.

(b) having extra marital and pre-marital relations

(c) entering into a wedlock within the same gotra or outside one’s caste or community

(d) violating the social codes laid down by the caste panchayats

Codes :
(1) (a), (b), (c) and (d)
(2) (b), (c) and (d) only
(3) (a) and (c) only
(4) (b) and (d) only
Answer: (a), (b), (c) and (d)
(9) In 2000, the UN security council passed resolution 1325 that call for :
(1) The exclusion of women from all combating forces, both in military and para-military structures.
(2) The full and equal participation of women in all peace and security initiatives.
(3) Women’s equal participation in efforts’ of war.
(4) The exclusion of men from all peace building processes.
Answer: The full and equal participation of women in all peace and security initiatives.
(10) Arrange the following in chronological order of their implementation :

(a) PCPNDT Act

(b) MTP Act

(c) Child Marriage Restraint Amendment Act

(d) Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act

Codes :
(1) (a), (b), (c), (d)
(2) (c), (a), (b), (d)
(3) (b), (c), (d), (a)
(4) (d), (c), (b), (a)
Answer: (b), (c), (d), (a)
(11) Arrange in sequence the steps in the construction of Index in Research :

(a) Selecting possible items

(b) Scoring the index

(c) Examining the empirical relationship

(d) Index validation

Codes :
(1) (a), (b), (c), (d)
(2) (a), (c), (d), (b)
(3) (a), (c), (b), (d)
(4) (b), (c), (d), (a)
Answer: (a), (c), (b), (d)
(12) Male stereo types projected in the media include :

(a) real man, successful

(b) athletic, Mr. Muscle

(c) Seducer with beautiful women by his side

(d) Homosexual man

Codes :
(1) (c) and (d) only
(2) (a), (b) and (d) only
(3) (a), (b) and (c) only
(4) (d) only
Answer: (a), (b) and (c) only
(13) Urban Work Force Participation Rate of females in India (2011) is :
(1) 25%
(2) 17.8%
(3) 15.4%
(4) 29%
Answer: 15.4%
(14) Which of the following statement is not an exposure of ‘androcentric bias’ in research ?
(1) Recording the experience of female only
(2) Assuming what applies to males as equally applicable to females
(3) Considering the experience of men as more important
(4) Considering the image of man for human beings
Answer: Recording the experience of female only
(15) Arrange chronologically the following Schemes/Policy of Ministry of Women and Child Development :

(a) Ujjawala

(b) Support to Training and Employment Programme

(c) National Mission for Empowerment of Women

(d) National Early Childhood Care and Education Policy

Codes :
(1) (a), (b), (c), (d)
(2) (b), (c), (d), (a)
(3) (a), (b), (d), (c)
(4) (b), (a), (c), (d)
Answer: (b), (a), (c), (d)

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