Women Studies Objective Questions and Answers | Women Studies MCQs | Test Set 38

Assertion (A) : In India, a significant number of trafficked women end-up in prostitution and multiple conditions of exploitation as a consequence of coercion, deception and economic enslavement.

Reason (R) : Trafficked women and children have a greater tendency to face risks with fewer opportunities to avoid abusive situations with marginalised access to justice and other resources for redress.

“Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details of activities of men and she has the same right to freedom and liberty as he ….. By sheer force of vicious custom, even the most ignorant and worthless men have been enjoying a superiority over women.”

Assertion (A) : The caste system perpetuates inequality, dominance and exploitation in Indian society.

Reason (R) : Higher caste people get more privileges from existing government policies and programmes.

i. Proportion of seats held by women in national Parliament.

ii. Proportion of women in the economic decision making.

iii. Proportion of women in the organized sector.

iv. Proportion of female share of income.

i. Questions the traditional notion regarding men as “humans” and women as “others”.

ii. Questions and challenges Androcentrism

iii. Explores our gendered existence

iv. As a body of knowledge examines the status of women in society.