Women Change The World - Class 7 Civics - Extra Questions

Her daughter was murdered for Dowry.

It was because she could read and write Sanskrit. It was a remarkable achievement as women were not allowed such knowledge those days.

International Women's Day is celebrated on 8 March every year.

They collected the mud and prepared the earth for the pots.

Learning the alphabet was so important to these woman because only after that they became able to write stories, letters, and autobiographies which described their own experiences of inequality.

Women are considered inferior to men. There is a belief that women do not have technical mind and therefore they cannot be scientists. It is thought that women are good at only certain jobs such as teaching and nursing. These stereotypes about women's capability or incapability of doing certain jobs badly affect women's right to equality. It is due to this reason that women are not paid fewer wages than their male counterparts.

Women in the UK got the right to vote in the year 1928.

Stereotypes prevent us from doing certain things that we might otherwise be good at.

Stereotype is a negative quality. It does not allow us to think or view a person as a unique individual. We ignore all his good qualities. We don't think about that individual beyond the set image otherwise he/she is good.

The movement for voting rights to women came to be known as the suffrage movement. All over Europe and USA. women and the poor have had to fight for participation in the government. Women's struggle to vote got strengthened during the first world war. During the War, many men were away fighting and because of this women were called upon to do work that was earlier considered men's work. Thus, women got opportunity to show their capability. People as a whole got disillusioned. They began demanding the right to vote for all women. The result was positive. American women got the right to vote in 1920 while women in the UK got the right to vote on the same terms as men some years later, in 1928.

It was Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain who wrote the story Sultana's Dream in 1905 at the age of 25. The story is all about Sultana's dream. In her imagination she reaches a place called Ladyland. Ladyland is the place where women had the freedom to study, work and create inventions like controlling rain from the clouds and flying air cars. In this Ladyland, the men has no freedom at all.They had been sent to seclusion. Their aggressive guns and other weapons of war defeated by the brainpower of women. As Sultana travels in the Ladyland, She awakes suddenly and becomes disappointed to see the reality.

The women's movement used several methods of struggle in order to raise issues. Two out of them are:
(a) Campaigning: It is an important part of the women's movement. It fights discrimination and violence against women. Campaigns have also led to new laws being passed. For example, in 2006, a law was passed to give women, who are prey to domestic violence, some legal protection.
The women's movement also led the Supreme Court to formulate guidelines in 1997 to protect women against sexual harassment at the workplace. Women's groups also raised voice against dowry deaths. They demanded immediate justice for cases of young brides being murdered by their in-laws or husbands for more dowry. They did so by coming on to the streets, approaching the courts and by sharing information.
As a result of their efforts, the dowry laws were changed to punish families who seek dowry.
(b) Protesting: The women's movement raises its voice when violations against women take place. Public rallies and demonstrations are a very powerful way of drawing attention to injustices.
If I had to organize a struggle against stereotypes, about what women can or cannot do, I would like to employ the method of raising awareness among the public. What pressure cannot do, awareness can do effectively. If we skillfully convince people for something it works excellently. We can brainwash the common mass through street plays, songs, and public meetings. It is a permanent solution to a problem.

Poor girls do not leave school because they wish so but because they are compelled to do so due to several reasons. In rural and poor areas of the country, there are no proper schools. There is also a dearth of teachers who can teach on a regular basis. If a school is not close to people's homes, and there is no transport facility, parents do not show their willingness to send girls to school.

83.6% of women are engaged in agricultural work.

Schools became more common and communities that had never learnt reading and writing started sending their children to school.

She started a school for girls in Kolkata which is functioning even today.

Women can be good teachers but they are incapable of dealing with technical things.

Women all over the world come together to celebrate the auspicious day and relive their struggles.

Pandita Ramabai setup a Mission in Khedgaon near Pune in 1898. This was the place where widows and poor women were encouraged not only to become literate but to be independent. They were taught a variety of skills from carpentry to running a printing press, skills that are considered male preserve. This Mission is still active today and goes a lot for women's upliftment.

Poverty and discrimination are the two major reasons why many girls do not continue their education.

Rashsundari Devi was a housewife from a rich landlord's family in west Bengal. She wrote about her everyday life experiences in her autobiography.

Laxmi Lakra belongs to a poor tribal family in Jharkhand- She studied in a government school. She studied hard and did well and then went on to get a diploma in electronics. She then took the railway board exam and passed it on her first attempt. She became the first woman engine driver for Northern Railways. In this way she broke stereo type that engine drivers could be men only. She says I have challenges and the moment somebody says it is not for girls. I make sure I go ahead and do it. Laxmi has had to go this several times in her life when she wanted to take electronics, when she race motorcycles at the polytechnics and when she decided to become an engine driver.

In those days. English was seen as a language that would expose girls to new ideas. which people thought were not correct for them. Therefore, it was mostly boys who were taught English. However, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain wished to learn these two languages in addition to Urdu. Fortunately, she got the support of her elder brother and an elder sister and ultimately learned to read and write Bangla and English.

It is because women's health concerns are considered to be less important than the health of men in the family.