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WOMEN STUDIES MCQs
1. ‘Bourgeois morality was based on hypocrisy, inequality and possession.’ Who among the following did not believe in this?
(A) Karl Marx
(B) Alexandra Kollontai
(C) Engels
(D) Mary Wollstonecraft
Ans: (D)
2. Match women leaders with the movement they are associated with:
(Name of woman leader) (Movement)
(i) Annie Besant (1) Green Belt Movement
(ii) Kasturba Gandhi (2) Swadeshi Movement
(iii) Wangari Maathai (3) Home Rule Movement
(iv) Vandana Shiva (4) Eco- Feminism Movement
Codes:
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(A) (3) (2) (1) (4)
(B) (2) (1) (3) (4)
(C) (1) (3) (4) (2)
(D) (4) (1) (2) (3)
Ans: (A)
3. “The Personal is political”! Which of the following feminist theories has given this slogan?
(A) Liberal Feminism
(B) Radical Feminism
(C) Marxist Feminism
(D) Socialist Feminism
Ans: (B)
4. Which of the following research method is applied in discovering the underlying motives of human behaviour?
(A) Qualitative Research
(B) Action Research
(C) Quantitative Research
(D) Policy Research
Ans: (A)
5. Assertion (A): Engels says that monogamous marriage is “founded on open or concealed domestic slavery of the wife”.
Reason (R): The sole aim of monogamous marriage was to make man supreme in the family and to announce future heirs to his wealth.
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true. (R) is the correct explanation for (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true, (R) is not the correct explanation.
Ans: (A)
6. What is the recent Constitutional Amendment in 2009 that enhances 50 percent women’s reservation in local bodies?
(A) 73rd Constitutional Amendment
(B) 112th Constitutional Amendment
(C) 74th Constitutional Amendment
(D) 87th Constitutional Amendment
Ans: (B)
7. What is India’s rank in the world with regard to women’s participation in politics?
(A) 44th place
(B) 50th place
(C) 98th place
(D) 88th place
Ans: (C)
8. The movement for women’s rights in India was initiated in
(A) 1917
(B) 1879
(C) 1949
(D) 1990
Ans: (A)
9. Assertion (A): Representation of women in Parliament and State Assemblies are very poor.
Reason (R): Political leaders are consciously keeping women out of party politics.
Codes:
(A) (A) is true (R) is false
(B) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true, (R) is the correct explanation for (A).
(D) (A) is false (R) is true.
Ans: (C)
10. Which Article of Indian Constitution prohibits discrimination against any citizen on the grounds of religion, caste and sex?
(A) Article 14
(B) Article 15
(C) Article 16
(D) Article 14(A)
Ans: (B)
11. Match the List – I with List – II as given below:
List-I List-II
(Years)
(a) Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act (i) 1956
(b) Maternity Benefit Act (ii) 1971
(c) Protection of Human Rights Act (iii) 1961
(d) Immoral Traffic Prevention Act (iv) 1993
Mark the correct answer from the codes given below:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
(B) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
(C) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
(D) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
Ans: (D)
12. Assertion (A): Issues of women became issues of social reform during the Independence movement.
Reason (R): Soon after Independence the women’s question was almost forgotten.
Codes:
(A) (A) is false (R) is correct.
(B) (R) is false (A) is correct.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.
Ans: (C)
13. The Department of Women and Child Development is a component of
(A) Ministry of Social Welfare
(B) Ministry of Labour
(C) Ministry of Human Resource Development
(D) An Independent Ministry
Ans: (B)
14. Match the List – I with List – II as given below:
List-I List-II
(Five Year Plan) (Issues for Women)
(a) The Sixth Plan (i) Empowerment of women
(b) The Seventh Plan (ii) Need for population control and women specific programmes
(c) The Eighth Plan (iii) Gainful employment to women and youth
(d) The Ninth Plan (iv) Women and Development
Mark the correct answer from the codes given below:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(B) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(C) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
(D) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
Ans: (B)
15. “Man is happy, self-accepting, and healthy without guilt, only when s/he is fulfilling himself and becoming what s/he can be.”
Who among the following said this?
(A) Betty Friedan
(B) Simone de Beauvoir
(C) Juliet Mitchell
(D) Sheila Rowbotham
Ans: (A)
16. Match the following authors with the name of their books:
(a) Shulamith Firestone (i) Sexual Politics
(b) Kate Millet (ii) The Dialectic of Sex
(c) Mary Wollstonecraft (iii) Vindication of the Rights of Woman
(d) Betty Friedan (iv) Feminine Mystique
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(B) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(C) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(D) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
Ans: (D)
17. Which is the most prominent agent of gender construction?
(A) Religion
(B) Family
(C) Caste
(D) Class
Ans: (B)
18. Assertion (A): Caste sets the social milieu for the status of women.
Reason (R): Caste is a basis for prevailing social inequality among Indian women.
Codes:
(A) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(B) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true.
Ans: (D)
19. Mark the correct statement:
(i) There are many classes of women.
(ii) Class is reflected in the behaviour of women.
(iii) Women constitute a class.
(iv) Class is an open form of social inequality among women.
Mark the correct answer from the codes below:
Codes:
(A) (i), (ii), (iv) only
(B) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
(C) (iii) and (iv) only
(D) (iv) only
Ans: (A)
20. The Registration of NGOs can be made under the following Acts:
(i) Societies Registration Act – 1860
(ii) The Indian Trust Act – 1882
(iii) Companies Act – 1956
(iv) Civil Societies Act – 1890
Codes:
(A) (i), (ii) and (iv) only
(B) (i), (ii) and (iii) only
(C) (i) and (iv) only
(D) (ii) and (iii) only
Ans: (B)
21. Among the following States which States have female literacy above 90% according to 2011 Census?
(i) Kerala
(ii) Goa
(iii) Pondicherry
(iv) Mizoram
Codes:
(A) (i) and (ii) only
(B) (i) and (iv) only
(C) (ii) and (iii) only
(D) (i) only
Ans: (D)
22. Which of the following Reform Movements supported the education of girls?
(i) Brahmo Samaj
(ii) Arya Samaj
(iii) Prarthana Samaj
(iv) Theosophical Society
Codes:
(A) (i), (ii) and (iii)
(B) (i) and (ii)
(C) (ii), (iii) and (iv)
(D) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)
Ans: (D)
23. The death of foetus after 28 weeks of pregnancy is known as
(A) Infant death
(B) Neo-natal death
(C) Still birth
(D) Post natal death
Ans: (C)
24. Arrange the following International Conferences in chronological sequence:
(a) UN Conference on Human Rights (i) Vienna
(b) Environment and Development (ii) Rio-de- Janeiro
(c) Population and Development (iii) Cairo
(d) Fourth Conference on Women (iv) Beijing
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
(B) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(C) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
(D) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
Ans: (A)
25. Which one of the following does not have an effect on the health of women working in ICTs centres?
(A) Health Hazards
(B) Broken family relationship
(C) Women are economically empowered
(D) Infertility has increased
Ans: (C)
26. What are the provisions related to rural women’s work in MGNREGS?
(i) Priority for women in the ratio of one third of total workers.
(ii) Equal wage for men and women.
(iii) Provision of work within a radius of five kms from the residence
(iv) Women have the freedom to choose the period and months of employment for themselves.
Codes:
(A) (i) and (iv) only
(B) (iv) only
(C) (iii) only
(D) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)
Ans: (D)
27. What is Comet Media Foundation?
(A) It is a media to conscientise women.
(B) It advocates gender and development issues and also uses alternative media.
(C) It is a department of media.
(D) It consistently monitors the media’s representation.
Ans: (B)
28. Mark the correct sequence of “Data Collection Techniques” arranged in the ascending order of the degree of personal involvement by the researcher.
(A) Mailed questionnaire, unstructured interview, structured interview, participant observation
(B) Participant observation, structured interview, mailed questionnaire, unstructured interview
(C) Mailed questionnaire, structured interview, unstructured interview, participant observation
(D) Unstructured interview, structured interview, participant observation, mailed questionnaire
Ans: (C)
29. In which type of sampling, every element of the population can have the chance to be selected?
(A) Convenient sampling
(B) Random sampling
(C) Systematic sampling
(D) Cluster sampling
Ans: (B)
30. Choose the correct expansion of CEDAW.
(A) Conference on the Eradication of All forms of Discrimination against Women.
(B) Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women.
(C) Conference on the Eradication of all forms of Differences among women
(D) Controlling Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Ans: (B)
31. Assertion (A): Women’s studies questioned existing theories and methodologies.
Reason (R): Received theories and methods failed to explain the live experiences of women and are biased.
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is false (R) is true.
(D) (R) is true but (A) is false.
Ans: (B)
32. Write the year of the UN Development Decade for women.
(A) 1975 – 85
(B) 1985 – 95
(C) 1991 – 2000
(D) 2001 – 2011
Ans: (A)
33. Match the following Legislative Acts with the year in which they were passed:
(a) Domestic Violence Act (i) 1971
(b) Hindu Marriage Act (ii) 2005
(c) Dowry Prohibition Act (iii) 1955
(d) Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act (iv) 1961
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (iv) (ii) (iii)
(B) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(C) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(D) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
Ans: (C)
34. Which of the following is not a characteristic of feminist research?
(A) Researcher and subject are interdependent
(B) Observer and observed are not connected
(C) Subject and researcher are placed in the equal empirical level
(D) Science and nature are kept in harmony
Ans: (B)
35. Write the sequence from present to past of the Chairperson of National Commission for Women.
(i) Girija Vyas
(ii) Poornima Advani
(iii) Vibha Parthasarathy
(iv) Mamta Sharma
(A) (iv), (i), (ii), (iii)
(B) (iv), (ii), (i), (iii)
(C) (ii), (iii), (i), (iv)
(D) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Ans: (A)
36. Among the following who is a prominent ‘Subaltern’ thinker?
(A) Arundhati Roy
(B) Bell Hook
(C) Gayatri Spivak
(D) Anita Desai
Ans: (C)
37. Assertion (A): Women are voting in large number but do not hold top ranking political offices.
Reason (R): Women have voting rights but do not have the right to contest elections.
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(B) (A) is true, (R) is false.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(D) (A) is false (R) is true.
Ans: (B)
38. What is/are the weakness of survey method?
(i) Surveys demand a great deal of attention and honesty on the part of respondents.
(ii) Surveys can describe the characteristics of a large population
(iii) Surveys make measurement more precise by enforcing uniform definitions upon the respondents.
(iv) Surveys are invariably context blind.
Mark the correct answer from the codes given below:
Codes:
(A) (iv) only
(B) (iii) and (iv) only
(C) (i) and (iv) only
(D) (i), (ii) and (iv)
Ans: (C)
39. What was the slogan that was proposed at the International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975?
(A) Equality, Development and Empowerment
(B) Equality, Development and Peace
(C) Equality, Education and Liberation
(D) Equality, Dignity and Freedom
Ans: (B)
40. Which of the following group is not associated with queer theory?
(A) Transgender
(B) Gay
(C) Homophobic
(D) Heterophobic
Ans: (D)
41. What was the percentage of women’s representation in 15th Lok Sabha?
(A) 9.5
(B) 10.8
(C) 7.5
(D) 9.2
Ans: (B)
42. Match the items from List – I and II:
(a) A Decade of Women’s Movement in India (i) Vina Mazumdar
(b) A field of one’s own (ii) Vandana Shiva
(c) Symbols of Power Studies on the Political Status of Women in India (iii) Bina Agrawal
(d) Staying Alive (iv) Neera Desai
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(B) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(C) (i) (iii) (iv) (ii)
(D) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
Ans: (A)
43. Which among the following is not covered under personal laws?
(A) The Maternity Benefit Act
(B) The Guardian and Wards Act
(C) The Hindu Succession Act
(D) The Special Marriage Act
Ans: (A)
44. Assertion (A): The differences between the sexes were a product of education and environment and not of nature.
Reason (R): Women have been socialized in a manner as to become mothers and wives first.
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true.
Ans: (A)
45. Match the items with the feminist theorist:
List – I List – II
(a) Equal legal and political rights (i) Marxist Feminism
(b) Opposition to heterosexuality (ii) Liberal Feminism
(c) Sex relations not simply a by-product of economic relations but a basic force (iii) Radical Feminism
(d) Family not a natural institution (iv) Socialist Feminism
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(B) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(C) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(D) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
Ans: (B)
46. “Within the family, he is the bourgeois and the wife represents the proletariat!” Who among the following Marxist thinkers said this?
(A) Alexandra Kollontai
(B) August Behel
(C) Rosa Luxemberg
(D) Frederick Engels
Ans: (D)
47. The term ‘Misogyny’ denotes
(A) Hatred of Women
(B) Hatred of Men
(C) Hatred of Human
(D) Hatred of Marriage
Ans: (A)
48. Match the List – I with List – II.
List – I List – II
(a) Universal Declaration of Human Rights (i) 1989
(b) Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural rights (ii) 1979
(c) The Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (iii) 1976
(d) Convention on the Rights of Child (iv) 1948
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(B) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
(C) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(D) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
Ans: (A)
49. The Demystification of Law for Women has been a ground breaking work of
(A) Flavia Agnes
(B) Nandita Haskar
(C) Lotika Sarkar
(D) Esther Boserup
Ans: (B)
50. What among the following is not the important leadership trait?
(A) Intelligence
(B) Self-confidence and determination
(C) Integrity and sociability
(D) Selfish and self-oriented
Ans: (D)
(A) Karl Marx
(B) Alexandra Kollontai
(C) Engels
(D) Mary Wollstonecraft
Ans: (D)
2. Match women leaders with the movement they are associated with:
(Name of woman leader) (Movement)
(i) Annie Besant (1) Green Belt Movement
(ii) Kasturba Gandhi (2) Swadeshi Movement
(iii) Wangari Maathai (3) Home Rule Movement
(iv) Vandana Shiva (4) Eco- Feminism Movement
Codes:
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(A) (3) (2) (1) (4)
(B) (2) (1) (3) (4)
(C) (1) (3) (4) (2)
(D) (4) (1) (2) (3)
Ans: (A)
3. “The Personal is political”! Which of the following feminist theories has given this slogan?
(A) Liberal Feminism
(B) Radical Feminism
(C) Marxist Feminism
(D) Socialist Feminism
Ans: (B)
4. Which of the following research method is applied in discovering the underlying motives of human behaviour?
(A) Qualitative Research
(B) Action Research
(C) Quantitative Research
(D) Policy Research
Ans: (A)
5. Assertion (A): Engels says that monogamous marriage is “founded on open or concealed domestic slavery of the wife”.
Reason (R): The sole aim of monogamous marriage was to make man supreme in the family and to announce future heirs to his wealth.
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true. (R) is the correct explanation for (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true, (R) is not the correct explanation.
Ans: (A)
6. What is the recent Constitutional Amendment in 2009 that enhances 50 percent women’s reservation in local bodies?
(A) 73rd Constitutional Amendment
(B) 112th Constitutional Amendment
(C) 74th Constitutional Amendment
(D) 87th Constitutional Amendment
Ans: (B)
7. What is India’s rank in the world with regard to women’s participation in politics?
(A) 44th place
(B) 50th place
(C) 98th place
(D) 88th place
Ans: (C)
8. The movement for women’s rights in India was initiated in
(A) 1917
(B) 1879
(C) 1949
(D) 1990
Ans: (A)
9. Assertion (A): Representation of women in Parliament and State Assemblies are very poor.
Reason (R): Political leaders are consciously keeping women out of party politics.
Codes:
(A) (A) is true (R) is false
(B) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true, (R) is the correct explanation for (A).
(D) (A) is false (R) is true.
Ans: (C)
10. Which Article of Indian Constitution prohibits discrimination against any citizen on the grounds of religion, caste and sex?
(A) Article 14
(B) Article 15
(C) Article 16
(D) Article 14(A)
Ans: (B)
11. Match the List – I with List – II as given below:
List-I List-II
(Years)
(a) Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act (i) 1956
(b) Maternity Benefit Act (ii) 1971
(c) Protection of Human Rights Act (iii) 1961
(d) Immoral Traffic Prevention Act (iv) 1993
Mark the correct answer from the codes given below:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
(B) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
(C) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
(D) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
Ans: (D)
12. Assertion (A): Issues of women became issues of social reform during the Independence movement.
Reason (R): Soon after Independence the women’s question was almost forgotten.
Codes:
(A) (A) is false (R) is correct.
(B) (R) is false (A) is correct.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.
Ans: (C)
13. The Department of Women and Child Development is a component of
(A) Ministry of Social Welfare
(B) Ministry of Labour
(C) Ministry of Human Resource Development
(D) An Independent Ministry
Ans: (B)
14. Match the List – I with List – II as given below:
List-I List-II
(Five Year Plan) (Issues for Women)
(a) The Sixth Plan (i) Empowerment of women
(b) The Seventh Plan (ii) Need for population control and women specific programmes
(c) The Eighth Plan (iii) Gainful employment to women and youth
(d) The Ninth Plan (iv) Women and Development
Mark the correct answer from the codes given below:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(B) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(C) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
(D) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
Ans: (B)
15. “Man is happy, self-accepting, and healthy without guilt, only when s/he is fulfilling himself and becoming what s/he can be.”
Who among the following said this?
(A) Betty Friedan
(B) Simone de Beauvoir
(C) Juliet Mitchell
(D) Sheila Rowbotham
Ans: (A)
16. Match the following authors with the name of their books:
(a) Shulamith Firestone (i) Sexual Politics
(b) Kate Millet (ii) The Dialectic of Sex
(c) Mary Wollstonecraft (iii) Vindication of the Rights of Woman
(d) Betty Friedan (iv) Feminine Mystique
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(B) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(C) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(D) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
Ans: (D)
17. Which is the most prominent agent of gender construction?
(A) Religion
(B) Family
(C) Caste
(D) Class
Ans: (B)
18. Assertion (A): Caste sets the social milieu for the status of women.
Reason (R): Caste is a basis for prevailing social inequality among Indian women.
Codes:
(A) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(B) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true.
Ans: (D)
19. Mark the correct statement:
(i) There are many classes of women.
(ii) Class is reflected in the behaviour of women.
(iii) Women constitute a class.
(iv) Class is an open form of social inequality among women.
Mark the correct answer from the codes below:
Codes:
(A) (i), (ii), (iv) only
(B) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
(C) (iii) and (iv) only
(D) (iv) only
Ans: (A)
20. The Registration of NGOs can be made under the following Acts:
(i) Societies Registration Act – 1860
(ii) The Indian Trust Act – 1882
(iii) Companies Act – 1956
(iv) Civil Societies Act – 1890
Codes:
(A) (i), (ii) and (iv) only
(B) (i), (ii) and (iii) only
(C) (i) and (iv) only
(D) (ii) and (iii) only
Ans: (B)
21. Among the following States which States have female literacy above 90% according to 2011 Census?
(i) Kerala
(ii) Goa
(iii) Pondicherry
(iv) Mizoram
Codes:
(A) (i) and (ii) only
(B) (i) and (iv) only
(C) (ii) and (iii) only
(D) (i) only
Ans: (D)
22. Which of the following Reform Movements supported the education of girls?
(i) Brahmo Samaj
(ii) Arya Samaj
(iii) Prarthana Samaj
(iv) Theosophical Society
Codes:
(A) (i), (ii) and (iii)
(B) (i) and (ii)
(C) (ii), (iii) and (iv)
(D) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)
Ans: (D)
23. The death of foetus after 28 weeks of pregnancy is known as
(A) Infant death
(B) Neo-natal death
(C) Still birth
(D) Post natal death
Ans: (C)
24. Arrange the following International Conferences in chronological sequence:
(a) UN Conference on Human Rights (i) Vienna
(b) Environment and Development (ii) Rio-de- Janeiro
(c) Population and Development (iii) Cairo
(d) Fourth Conference on Women (iv) Beijing
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
(B) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(C) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
(D) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
Ans: (A)
25. Which one of the following does not have an effect on the health of women working in ICTs centres?
(A) Health Hazards
(B) Broken family relationship
(C) Women are economically empowered
(D) Infertility has increased
Ans: (C)
26. What are the provisions related to rural women’s work in MGNREGS?
(i) Priority for women in the ratio of one third of total workers.
(ii) Equal wage for men and women.
(iii) Provision of work within a radius of five kms from the residence
(iv) Women have the freedom to choose the period and months of employment for themselves.
Codes:
(A) (i) and (iv) only
(B) (iv) only
(C) (iii) only
(D) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)
Ans: (D)
27. What is Comet Media Foundation?
(A) It is a media to conscientise women.
(B) It advocates gender and development issues and also uses alternative media.
(C) It is a department of media.
(D) It consistently monitors the media’s representation.
Ans: (B)
28. Mark the correct sequence of “Data Collection Techniques” arranged in the ascending order of the degree of personal involvement by the researcher.
(A) Mailed questionnaire, unstructured interview, structured interview, participant observation
(B) Participant observation, structured interview, mailed questionnaire, unstructured interview
(C) Mailed questionnaire, structured interview, unstructured interview, participant observation
(D) Unstructured interview, structured interview, participant observation, mailed questionnaire
Ans: (C)
29. In which type of sampling, every element of the population can have the chance to be selected?
(A) Convenient sampling
(B) Random sampling
(C) Systematic sampling
(D) Cluster sampling
Ans: (B)
30. Choose the correct expansion of CEDAW.
(A) Conference on the Eradication of All forms of Discrimination against Women.
(B) Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women.
(C) Conference on the Eradication of all forms of Differences among women
(D) Controlling Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Ans: (B)
31. Assertion (A): Women’s studies questioned existing theories and methodologies.
Reason (R): Received theories and methods failed to explain the live experiences of women and are biased.
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is false (R) is true.
(D) (R) is true but (A) is false.
Ans: (B)
32. Write the year of the UN Development Decade for women.
(A) 1975 – 85
(B) 1985 – 95
(C) 1991 – 2000
(D) 2001 – 2011
Ans: (A)
33. Match the following Legislative Acts with the year in which they were passed:
(a) Domestic Violence Act (i) 1971
(b) Hindu Marriage Act (ii) 2005
(c) Dowry Prohibition Act (iii) 1955
(d) Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act (iv) 1961
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (iv) (ii) (iii)
(B) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(C) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(D) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
Ans: (C)
34. Which of the following is not a characteristic of feminist research?
(A) Researcher and subject are interdependent
(B) Observer and observed are not connected
(C) Subject and researcher are placed in the equal empirical level
(D) Science and nature are kept in harmony
Ans: (B)
35. Write the sequence from present to past of the Chairperson of National Commission for Women.
(i) Girija Vyas
(ii) Poornima Advani
(iii) Vibha Parthasarathy
(iv) Mamta Sharma
(A) (iv), (i), (ii), (iii)
(B) (iv), (ii), (i), (iii)
(C) (ii), (iii), (i), (iv)
(D) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Ans: (A)
36. Among the following who is a prominent ‘Subaltern’ thinker?
(A) Arundhati Roy
(B) Bell Hook
(C) Gayatri Spivak
(D) Anita Desai
Ans: (C)
37. Assertion (A): Women are voting in large number but do not hold top ranking political offices.
Reason (R): Women have voting rights but do not have the right to contest elections.
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(B) (A) is true, (R) is false.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(D) (A) is false (R) is true.
Ans: (B)
38. What is/are the weakness of survey method?
(i) Surveys demand a great deal of attention and honesty on the part of respondents.
(ii) Surveys can describe the characteristics of a large population
(iii) Surveys make measurement more precise by enforcing uniform definitions upon the respondents.
(iv) Surveys are invariably context blind.
Mark the correct answer from the codes given below:
Codes:
(A) (iv) only
(B) (iii) and (iv) only
(C) (i) and (iv) only
(D) (i), (ii) and (iv)
Ans: (C)
39. What was the slogan that was proposed at the International Women’s Year Conference in Mexico City in 1975?
(A) Equality, Development and Empowerment
(B) Equality, Development and Peace
(C) Equality, Education and Liberation
(D) Equality, Dignity and Freedom
Ans: (B)
40. Which of the following group is not associated with queer theory?
(A) Transgender
(B) Gay
(C) Homophobic
(D) Heterophobic
Ans: (D)
41. What was the percentage of women’s representation in 15th Lok Sabha?
(A) 9.5
(B) 10.8
(C) 7.5
(D) 9.2
Ans: (B)
42. Match the items from List – I and II:
(a) A Decade of Women’s Movement in India (i) Vina Mazumdar
(b) A field of one’s own (ii) Vandana Shiva
(c) Symbols of Power Studies on the Political Status of Women in India (iii) Bina Agrawal
(d) Staying Alive (iv) Neera Desai
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(B) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(C) (i) (iii) (iv) (ii)
(D) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
Ans: (A)
43. Which among the following is not covered under personal laws?
(A) The Maternity Benefit Act
(B) The Guardian and Wards Act
(C) The Hindu Succession Act
(D) The Special Marriage Act
Ans: (A)
44. Assertion (A): The differences between the sexes were a product of education and environment and not of nature.
Reason (R): Women have been socialized in a manner as to become mothers and wives first.
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true.
Ans: (A)
45. Match the items with the feminist theorist:
List – I List – II
(a) Equal legal and political rights (i) Marxist Feminism
(b) Opposition to heterosexuality (ii) Liberal Feminism
(c) Sex relations not simply a by-product of economic relations but a basic force (iii) Radical Feminism
(d) Family not a natural institution (iv) Socialist Feminism
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(B) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(C) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(D) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
Ans: (B)
46. “Within the family, he is the bourgeois and the wife represents the proletariat!” Who among the following Marxist thinkers said this?
(A) Alexandra Kollontai
(B) August Behel
(C) Rosa Luxemberg
(D) Frederick Engels
Ans: (D)
47. The term ‘Misogyny’ denotes
(A) Hatred of Women
(B) Hatred of Men
(C) Hatred of Human
(D) Hatred of Marriage
Ans: (A)
48. Match the List – I with List – II.
List – I List – II
(a) Universal Declaration of Human Rights (i) 1989
(b) Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural rights (ii) 1979
(c) The Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (iii) 1976
(d) Convention on the Rights of Child (iv) 1948
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(B) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
(C) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(D) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
Ans: (A)
49. The Demystification of Law for Women has been a ground breaking work of
(A) Flavia Agnes
(B) Nandita Haskar
(C) Lotika Sarkar
(D) Esther Boserup
Ans: (B)
50. What among the following is not the important leadership trait?
(A) Intelligence
(B) Self-confidence and determination
(C) Integrity and sociability
(D) Selfish and self-oriented
Ans: (D)
51. The State with the lowest female literacy rate is:
(A) U.P.
(B) Rajasthan
(C) Bihar
(D) M.P.
Ans: (C)
52. The Sexual Harassment Complaints Committee as per the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2013, is required to complete the inquiry within a period of:
(A) 90 days
(B) 60 days
(C) 45 days
(D) 120 days
Ans: (A)
53. The World Values Survey provides a window on how social perceptions have changed during the globalization process? Choose the correct answer:
(i) Social attitudes toward women have changed from domestic roles to social actors or an agency to change.
(ii) The bargaining power of women has changed.
(iii) The collective action for the empowerment of women.
(iv) Self-centredness has increased.
Codes:
(A) (ii) only
(B) (i) only
(C) (i) and (iii) only
(D) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)
Ans: (C)
54. ICTs have transformed the economic activity of both women and men by increasing the demand for which skills?
Choose the correct answer:
(i) Soft skills
(ii) Shift from brain (cognitive) and non-routine skills to brawn (manual) and routine skills.
(iii) Shift from local ethnic skills.
(iv) Technological skills.
Codes:
(A) (i) only
(B) (i) and (ii) only
(C) (iii), (i) and (iv) only
(D) (iii) and (iv) only
Ans: (B)
55. The UNO nominated ‘Malala’ as UN Ambassador to promote
(A) Girls’ Safety and Security
(B) Girls’ Rights
(C) Girls’ Education
(D) Girls’ in different situations
Ans: (C)
56. Please identify the important sectors where women are working more than men in the world:
(i) Communication services
(ii) Retail, Hotels and Restaurants
(iii) Manufacturing
(iv) Finance and Business
Codes:
(A) (iv) only
(B) (i), (ii) and (iii) only
(C) (iii) and (iv) only
(D) (ii) and (iv) only
Ans: (B)
57. Unorganized sector is marked by:
(i) High Capital incentives
(ii) High incidence of casual labour
(iii) Intermittent nature of work
(iv) Lack of protection of labour legislation
Codes:
(A) (iv) only
(B) (ii), (iii) and (iv) only
(C) (ii) and (iv) only
(D) (iii) and (iv) only
Ans: (B)
58. Percentage of Urban female marginal workers to total workers in India (2011) is:
(A) 46.3
(B) 48.6
(C) 23.0
(D) 39.1
Ans: (C)
59. Gender Parity Index at Senior Secondary Level of Education (XI-XII) among the SCs (2012) is:
(A) 91
(B) 99
(C) 97
(D) 90
Ans: (D)
60. Percentage of rural female main workers to total workers in India (2011) is
(A) 70.3
(B) 55.6
(C) 58.2
(D) 42.1
Ans: (B)
61. Marginal workers are those workers who work for the major of the reference period which is
(A) Less than four months
(B) Less than six months
(C) Less than eight months
(D) Less than three months
Ans: (B)
62. Assertion (A): The persistence of discriminatory laws, policies, patriarchal customs and traditions in various countries are still blocking women from enjoying their land and property rights.
Reason (R): Most of the women are enjoying property and land rights in India.
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(C) (A) is true and (R) is not the correct explanation for (A).
(D) (A) is true and (R) is false.
Ans: (C)
63. Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 2013 passed after J.S. Verma Committee Report makes amendments in:
(A) Criminal Procedure Code only
(B) Indian Penal Code only
(C) Indian Evidence Act
(D) All the above three (CrPC, IPC and Indian Evidence Act)
Ans: (D)
64. Female Work Participate Rate of India is
(A) 33.4
(B) 25.5
(C) 37.6
(D) 21.4
Ans: (B)
65. The Constitution (Amendment) Bill passed by Rajya Sabha that provides for reservation for women in Parliament and State Assemblies is:
(A) 81st Amendment Bill
(B) 103rd Amendment Bill
(C) 108th Amendment Bill
(D) 111th Amendment Bill
Ans: (C)
66. First woman to become Deputy Chairperson of Rajya Sabha:
(A) Margaret Alva
(B) Najma Heptullah
(C) Violet Alva
(D) Renuka Chaudhary
Ans: (C)
67. The percentage of Women Parliamentarians in the World has increased from 11 percent in 1995 to _______ percent in 2013:
(A) 25
(B) 40
(C) 21
(D) 27
Ans: (C)
68. The first Woman to receive Bharat Ratna Award:
(A) Mother Teresa
(B) Indira Gandhi
(C) Sarojini Naidu
(D) Aruna Asaf Ali
Ans: (B)
69. The Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on the Empowerment of Women is:
(A) Sumitra Mahajan
(B) Girija Vyas
(C) Krishna Tirath
(D) Rajkumari Ratna Singh
Ans: (D)
70. India ranks in Gender Inequality Index at:
(A) 128
(B) 132
(C) 126
(D) 136
Ans: (B)
71. Which one of the following is the UN agency for women?
(A) UNIFEM
(B) DAW
(C) OSAGI
(D) UN Women
Ans: (D)
Read the passage and answer the following questions: (Question Nos. 72-75)
The most celebrated theoretical proposition that links women’s labour force participation with economic development, the U-shaped feminisation hypothesis, argues that when subsistence economies transform to developing economies, women withdraw from the labour force and thereafter beyond a minimum threshold the participation rates of women start rising. The U-shaped curve takes this form owing to the substitution and income effects on women’s choice between domestic unpaid work and paid work. In subsistence economies women contribute labour towards subsistence agricultural production as unpaid family labour along with domestic activities, thus suffering from double burden of work. With the rise of commercialised agriculture, structural transformation, enhancement in household income and gender-based wage differentials, opportunity cost of domestic activities for women increases while that of paid labour of women decreases. Hence they tend to withdraw from the labour force, termed as the “income effect”. With the rise of service sector, white collar jobs, institutionalised-care giving, expansion of education among women and declining wage differentials, the opportunity cost of paid labour for women increases. Thereafter women “substitute” domestic activities for paid work. Yet this framework assumes away the fundamental gender relations that regulate women’s participation in paid work. Socialist feminist construct of the development of capitalism exploit gender relations to explain defeminisation. With the development of capitalist organisation of production in a patriarchal social system, female labour progressively undergoes “female marginalisation”. The shift from attached labour in the feudal agricultural system to wage labour in capitalist farming realigns the household division of labour among worker households with sectoral diversification and technological change the emerging skillbiased demand for labour is gender segregated due to gender-biased progress in education. Women are then obligated to either withdraw from the labour force or enter as secondary workers.
72. Assertion (A): When subsistence economies transform to developing economies, women withdraw from the labour force and thereafter beyond a minimum threshold, the participation rate of women starts rising.
Reason (R): The substitution and income level hardly effect the women’s choice between domestic unpaid work and paid work.
Codes:
(A) (A) is correct but (R) is wrong and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
(D) (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Ans: (A)
73. What are the reasons for ‘female marginalization’ in paid work?
(i) Fendal system
(ii) Patriarchal social system
(iii) Capitalistic organization of production
(iv) Gender relations
Codes:
(A) (i) and (ii) only
(B) (ii), (iii) and (iv) only
(C) (iv) only
(D) (ii) and (iii) only
Ans: (B)
74. What leads the women to ‘substitute’ domestic activities for paid work?
(A) More jobs in service sector
(B) Incentives to the women for work
(C) Institutionalized care giving
(D) Better wages to women
Ans: (C)
75. Which of the following variables lead to the increase in opportunity cost of domestic activities for women?
(i) Structural transformation
(ii) Household income
(iii) Gender based wage differential
(iv) Commercialized agriculture
Codes:
(A) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)
(B) (iii) and (iv) only
(C) (ii) and (iii) only
(D) (i) and (iii) only
Ans: (D)
76. Match the List-I and II:
List – I List – II
(a) Human Rights Day (i) November 25th
(b) White Ribbon Day (ii) December 1st
(c) HIV/AIDS Day (iii) December 10th
(d) Population Day (iv) July 11th
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
(C) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(D) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
Ans: (B)
77. The recently introduced bill in the Lok Sabha which intends to provide for the gender specific needs of women farmers is known as
(A) Women Farmers Bill 2012
(B) Women Entitlement Bill 2012
(C) Women Farmers Entitlement Bill 2012
(D) Women Farmers Bill 2011
Ans: (C)
78. Among the following terms, which is not closely associated with violence?
(A) Battering
(B) Adultery
(C) Harassment
(D) Abuse
Ans: (B)
79. Assertion (A): The emphasis oneducating women will bring about widespread social changes and population stabilization.
Reason (R): Women’s education plays a major role in changing the fertility pattern throughout the world.
(A) (A) is false and (R) is true.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation for (A).
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true, (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
Ans: (C)
80. Which of the following conferences identified that “Women have a vital role in Environment Management”?
(A) Beijing conference
(B) Rio-de Janeiro conference
(C) Cairo-conference
(D) Mexico conference
Ans: (A)
81. Expand the correct acronym of ‘DAWN’.
(A) Development Association with Women for a New Employment.
(B) Department of Alternatives with Women for a New Era
(C) Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era
(D) Development Association with Women for a New Era
Ans: (C)
82. Match the items from List-I and List-II.
List – I List – II
(a) HIV/AIDS (i) Red Blood cells
(b) Anaemia (ii) White Blood cells
(c) Amniocentesis (iii) Contraceptive
(d) Depoproveria (iv) Sex Determination test
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(C) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
(D) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
Ans: (D)
83. Among the following Women Chief Ministers who is currently not holding the position?
(A) Mayavati
(B) MamtaBanerji
(C) Shiela Dixit
(D) Jayalalithaa
Ans: (A)
84. Among the following feminists who have advocated that ‘Husband represents the Bourgeois and wife represents the Proletariat’.
(A) Karl Marx
(B) Clara Zetkin
(C) Margaret Benston
(D) Friedrich Engels
Ans: (D)
85. Match the list of Books (List-I) and Authors (List-II)
List – I List – II
(Books) (Authors)
(a) Second Sex (i) Mary Daly
(b) Gyn/ Ecology (ii) Juliet Mitchell
(c) Sexual Politics (iii) Simon De Beauvoir
(d) Women’s Estate (iv) Kate Millet
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(B) (iii) (i) (iv) (ii)
(C) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
(D) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
Ans: (B)
86. Assertion (A): Sexual Harassment (Prevention) cells have been established in most of the private and public sector organisation.
Reason (R): Working women are subject to sexual harassment at work place.
(A) (A) is true and (R) is false.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation for (A).
(C) (A) is false and (R) is true.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.
Ans: (B)
87. Among the following, who is not a post-modern feminist?
(A) Juliet Mitchell
(B) Helene Cixaus
(C) Luce Irigaray
(D) Jacques Derrida
Ans: (A)
88. Assertion (A): It is very difficult to define the subject of Women’s Studies.
Reason (R): Feminist thoughts and positions are diversified.
Codes:
(A) (A) is wrong and (R) is correct.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
(C) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(D) Both (A) and (R) are correctand (R) is the correctexplanation of (A).
Ans: (D)
89. Who is called an ‘iron lady’ in the field of Indian sports?
(A) P.T. Usha
(B) KarnamMalleswari
(C) SainaNehwal
(D) Mary Com
Ans: (C)
90. Match the prominent women from (List-I) and their position (List-II).
List – I List – II
(a) Margaret Alva (i) Chairperson, National Commission for women
(b) PremaCariayapa (ii) Chairperson, Central Social Welfare Board
(c) Mamta Sharma (iii) Governor of Uttarakhand
(d) Krishna Tirath (iv) Minister for Women and Child Development
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
(B) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
(C) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(D) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
Ans: (B)
91. What are the dimensions taken to measure the Gender Inequality Index (GII)?
(A) Reproductive Health, Labour Market, Literacy and Knowledge.
(B) Employment, Gender wage differentials and Empowerment.
(C) Labour market, Employment and Political participation.
(D) Reproductive Health, Empowerment and Labour market.
Ans: (D)
92. The concept of Socialization of ‘Domestic Labour’ was introduced by
(A) Margaret Benston
(B) Oakley
(C) Firestone
(D) Nancy Chodorow
Ans: (A)
93. Assertion (A): Feminist perspectives on environment challenge the social, cultural and political sources of power in society.
Reason (R): Sustainable Development Challenge the participation of men in pro-ecological ways of living.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(B) (A) is true, (R) is false.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true, (R) is the correct explanation for (A).
(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.
Ans: (B)
94. Match the list of women’s Universities (List-I) and Location (List-II).
List – I List – II
(a) Mother Teresa Women’s University (i) Rajasthan
(b) Sri Padmavati Women’s University (ii) Maharashtra
(c) S.N.D.T. Women’s University (iii) Andhra Pradesh
(d) Banasthali Vidyapeeth (iv) Tamil Nadu
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(B) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
(C) (iv) (i) (iii) (ii)
(D) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
Ans: (A)
95. Mark out the correct answer about Hypothesis:
(i) Hypothesis is a statement, which is yet to be tested.
(ii) Hypothesis is all positive.
(iii) Hypothesis can be null.
(iv) The sources of hypotheses can be the existing theories.
Codes:
(A) (i), (iii) and (iv) only.
(B) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv).
(C) (ii), (iii) and (iv) only.
(D) (i), (ii) and (iii) only.
Ans: (A)
Read the following paragraph and answer question numbers 96 to 100.
In proving women’s inferiority, the anti-feminists began to draw not only upon religion, philosophy, and theology, as before, but also upon science-biology, experimental psychology, etc. At most they were willing to grant ‘equality in difference’ to the other sex. That profitable formula is most significant; it is precisely like the ‘equal but separate’ formula of the Jim Crow laws aimed at the North American Negroes. As is well known, this so-called equalitarian segregation has resulted only in the most extreme discrimination. The similarity jut noted is in no way due to chance, for whether it is a race, a caste, a class, or a sex that is reduced to a position of inferiority, the methods of justification are the same. The ‘eternal feminine’ corresponds to ‘the black soul’ and to ‘the Jewish character’. True, the Jewish problem is on the whole very different from the other two-to the anti-Semite the Jew is not so much an inferior as he is an enemy for whom there is to be granted no place on earth, for whom annihilation is the fate desired. But there are deep similarities between the situation of women and that of the Negro. Both are being emancipated today from a like paternalism, and the former master class wishes to keep them in their place’ – that is, the place chosen for them. In both cases, the former masters lavish more or less sincere eulogies, either on the virtues of ‘the good Negro’ with his dormant, childish, merry soul – the submissive Negro-or on the merits of the woman who is ‘truly feminine’ – that is, frivolous, infantile, irresponsible – the submissive woman. In both cases, the dominant class bases its argumenton a state of affairs that it has itself created. As George Bernard Shaw puts it, in substance, ‘The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.’ This vicious circle is met with in all analogous circumstances; when an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior. But the significance of the verb to be must be rightly understood here; it is in bad faith to give it a static value when it really has the dynamic Hegelian sense of ‘to have become. Yes, women on the whole are today inferior to men; that is, their situation affords them fewer possibilities.
96. Anti-feminists argued for women’s inferiority on the basis of
(i) Philosophy
(ii) Caste
(iii) Biology
(iv) Experimental Psychology
Codes:
(A) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
(B) (ii), (iii) and (iv) only
(C) (i), (iii) and (iv) only
(D) (iii) and (iv) only
Ans: (C)
97. Mark out the correct Answer
The formula of ‘equality in difference’ is profitable for
(A) Emancipating all relegated to the position of inferiority.
(B) Maintaining the status-quo or even enhancing discrimination against women.
(C) Solving the issues of Negroes and Jews.
(D) Minimizing discrimination against women.
Ans: (B)
98. Assertion (A): ‘The eternal feminine’ corresponds to ‘the black soul’ and to ‘the Jewish Character’.
Reason (R): There are deep similarities among the situation of the Jews, the situation of woman and that of the Negro.
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(B) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is wrong and (R) is correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
Ans: (B)
99. How is the situation of woman and that of the Negro is similar?
(i) Both are biologically inferior.
(ii) Both have been liberated from alike paternalism.
(iii) Both have been slave to their masters for their submissiveness.
(iv) Both are responsible for their state of affairs.
Codes:
(A) (ii), (iii) and (iv) only
(B) (i) and (iv) only
(C) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)
(D) (ii) and (iii) only
Ans: (A)
100. Assertion (A): Women on the whole are today inferior to men and their situation will continue.
Reason (R): The vicious circle of inferiority is static and not dynamic.
Codes:
(A) (A) is correct and (R) is wrong.
(B) (A) is wrong and (R) is correct.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Ans: (C)
(A) U.P.
(B) Rajasthan
(C) Bihar
(D) M.P.
Ans: (C)
52. The Sexual Harassment Complaints Committee as per the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2013, is required to complete the inquiry within a period of:
(A) 90 days
(B) 60 days
(C) 45 days
(D) 120 days
Ans: (A)
53. The World Values Survey provides a window on how social perceptions have changed during the globalization process? Choose the correct answer:
(i) Social attitudes toward women have changed from domestic roles to social actors or an agency to change.
(ii) The bargaining power of women has changed.
(iii) The collective action for the empowerment of women.
(iv) Self-centredness has increased.
Codes:
(A) (ii) only
(B) (i) only
(C) (i) and (iii) only
(D) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)
Ans: (C)
54. ICTs have transformed the economic activity of both women and men by increasing the demand for which skills?
Choose the correct answer:
(i) Soft skills
(ii) Shift from brain (cognitive) and non-routine skills to brawn (manual) and routine skills.
(iii) Shift from local ethnic skills.
(iv) Technological skills.
Codes:
(A) (i) only
(B) (i) and (ii) only
(C) (iii), (i) and (iv) only
(D) (iii) and (iv) only
Ans: (B)
55. The UNO nominated ‘Malala’ as UN Ambassador to promote
(A) Girls’ Safety and Security
(B) Girls’ Rights
(C) Girls’ Education
(D) Girls’ in different situations
Ans: (C)
56. Please identify the important sectors where women are working more than men in the world:
(i) Communication services
(ii) Retail, Hotels and Restaurants
(iii) Manufacturing
(iv) Finance and Business
Codes:
(A) (iv) only
(B) (i), (ii) and (iii) only
(C) (iii) and (iv) only
(D) (ii) and (iv) only
Ans: (B)
57. Unorganized sector is marked by:
(i) High Capital incentives
(ii) High incidence of casual labour
(iii) Intermittent nature of work
(iv) Lack of protection of labour legislation
Codes:
(A) (iv) only
(B) (ii), (iii) and (iv) only
(C) (ii) and (iv) only
(D) (iii) and (iv) only
Ans: (B)
58. Percentage of Urban female marginal workers to total workers in India (2011) is:
(A) 46.3
(B) 48.6
(C) 23.0
(D) 39.1
Ans: (C)
59. Gender Parity Index at Senior Secondary Level of Education (XI-XII) among the SCs (2012) is:
(A) 91
(B) 99
(C) 97
(D) 90
Ans: (D)
60. Percentage of rural female main workers to total workers in India (2011) is
(A) 70.3
(B) 55.6
(C) 58.2
(D) 42.1
Ans: (B)
61. Marginal workers are those workers who work for the major of the reference period which is
(A) Less than four months
(B) Less than six months
(C) Less than eight months
(D) Less than three months
Ans: (B)
62. Assertion (A): The persistence of discriminatory laws, policies, patriarchal customs and traditions in various countries are still blocking women from enjoying their land and property rights.
Reason (R): Most of the women are enjoying property and land rights in India.
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(C) (A) is true and (R) is not the correct explanation for (A).
(D) (A) is true and (R) is false.
Ans: (C)
63. Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 2013 passed after J.S. Verma Committee Report makes amendments in:
(A) Criminal Procedure Code only
(B) Indian Penal Code only
(C) Indian Evidence Act
(D) All the above three (CrPC, IPC and Indian Evidence Act)
Ans: (D)
64. Female Work Participate Rate of India is
(A) 33.4
(B) 25.5
(C) 37.6
(D) 21.4
Ans: (B)
65. The Constitution (Amendment) Bill passed by Rajya Sabha that provides for reservation for women in Parliament and State Assemblies is:
(A) 81st Amendment Bill
(B) 103rd Amendment Bill
(C) 108th Amendment Bill
(D) 111th Amendment Bill
Ans: (C)
66. First woman to become Deputy Chairperson of Rajya Sabha:
(A) Margaret Alva
(B) Najma Heptullah
(C) Violet Alva
(D) Renuka Chaudhary
Ans: (C)
67. The percentage of Women Parliamentarians in the World has increased from 11 percent in 1995 to _______ percent in 2013:
(A) 25
(B) 40
(C) 21
(D) 27
Ans: (C)
68. The first Woman to receive Bharat Ratna Award:
(A) Mother Teresa
(B) Indira Gandhi
(C) Sarojini Naidu
(D) Aruna Asaf Ali
Ans: (B)
69. The Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on the Empowerment of Women is:
(A) Sumitra Mahajan
(B) Girija Vyas
(C) Krishna Tirath
(D) Rajkumari Ratna Singh
Ans: (D)
70. India ranks in Gender Inequality Index at:
(A) 128
(B) 132
(C) 126
(D) 136
Ans: (B)
71. Which one of the following is the UN agency for women?
(A) UNIFEM
(B) DAW
(C) OSAGI
(D) UN Women
Ans: (D)
Read the passage and answer the following questions: (Question Nos. 72-75)
The most celebrated theoretical proposition that links women’s labour force participation with economic development, the U-shaped feminisation hypothesis, argues that when subsistence economies transform to developing economies, women withdraw from the labour force and thereafter beyond a minimum threshold the participation rates of women start rising. The U-shaped curve takes this form owing to the substitution and income effects on women’s choice between domestic unpaid work and paid work. In subsistence economies women contribute labour towards subsistence agricultural production as unpaid family labour along with domestic activities, thus suffering from double burden of work. With the rise of commercialised agriculture, structural transformation, enhancement in household income and gender-based wage differentials, opportunity cost of domestic activities for women increases while that of paid labour of women decreases. Hence they tend to withdraw from the labour force, termed as the “income effect”. With the rise of service sector, white collar jobs, institutionalised-care giving, expansion of education among women and declining wage differentials, the opportunity cost of paid labour for women increases. Thereafter women “substitute” domestic activities for paid work. Yet this framework assumes away the fundamental gender relations that regulate women’s participation in paid work. Socialist feminist construct of the development of capitalism exploit gender relations to explain defeminisation. With the development of capitalist organisation of production in a patriarchal social system, female labour progressively undergoes “female marginalisation”. The shift from attached labour in the feudal agricultural system to wage labour in capitalist farming realigns the household division of labour among worker households with sectoral diversification and technological change the emerging skillbiased demand for labour is gender segregated due to gender-biased progress in education. Women are then obligated to either withdraw from the labour force or enter as secondary workers.
72. Assertion (A): When subsistence economies transform to developing economies, women withdraw from the labour force and thereafter beyond a minimum threshold, the participation rate of women starts rising.
Reason (R): The substitution and income level hardly effect the women’s choice between domestic unpaid work and paid work.
Codes:
(A) (A) is correct but (R) is wrong and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
(D) (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Ans: (A)
73. What are the reasons for ‘female marginalization’ in paid work?
(i) Fendal system
(ii) Patriarchal social system
(iii) Capitalistic organization of production
(iv) Gender relations
Codes:
(A) (i) and (ii) only
(B) (ii), (iii) and (iv) only
(C) (iv) only
(D) (ii) and (iii) only
Ans: (B)
74. What leads the women to ‘substitute’ domestic activities for paid work?
(A) More jobs in service sector
(B) Incentives to the women for work
(C) Institutionalized care giving
(D) Better wages to women
Ans: (C)
75. Which of the following variables lead to the increase in opportunity cost of domestic activities for women?
(i) Structural transformation
(ii) Household income
(iii) Gender based wage differential
(iv) Commercialized agriculture
Codes:
(A) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)
(B) (iii) and (iv) only
(C) (ii) and (iii) only
(D) (i) and (iii) only
Ans: (D)
76. Match the List-I and II:
List – I List – II
(a) Human Rights Day (i) November 25th
(b) White Ribbon Day (ii) December 1st
(c) HIV/AIDS Day (iii) December 10th
(d) Population Day (iv) July 11th
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
(C) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(D) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
Ans: (B)
77. The recently introduced bill in the Lok Sabha which intends to provide for the gender specific needs of women farmers is known as
(A) Women Farmers Bill 2012
(B) Women Entitlement Bill 2012
(C) Women Farmers Entitlement Bill 2012
(D) Women Farmers Bill 2011
Ans: (C)
78. Among the following terms, which is not closely associated with violence?
(A) Battering
(B) Adultery
(C) Harassment
(D) Abuse
Ans: (B)
79. Assertion (A): The emphasis oneducating women will bring about widespread social changes and population stabilization.
Reason (R): Women’s education plays a major role in changing the fertility pattern throughout the world.
(A) (A) is false and (R) is true.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation for (A).
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true, (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
Ans: (C)
80. Which of the following conferences identified that “Women have a vital role in Environment Management”?
(A) Beijing conference
(B) Rio-de Janeiro conference
(C) Cairo-conference
(D) Mexico conference
Ans: (A)
81. Expand the correct acronym of ‘DAWN’.
(A) Development Association with Women for a New Employment.
(B) Department of Alternatives with Women for a New Era
(C) Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era
(D) Development Association with Women for a New Era
Ans: (C)
82. Match the items from List-I and List-II.
List – I List – II
(a) HIV/AIDS (i) Red Blood cells
(b) Anaemia (ii) White Blood cells
(c) Amniocentesis (iii) Contraceptive
(d) Depoproveria (iv) Sex Determination test
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(C) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
(D) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
Ans: (D)
83. Among the following Women Chief Ministers who is currently not holding the position?
(A) Mayavati
(B) MamtaBanerji
(C) Shiela Dixit
(D) Jayalalithaa
Ans: (A)
84. Among the following feminists who have advocated that ‘Husband represents the Bourgeois and wife represents the Proletariat’.
(A) Karl Marx
(B) Clara Zetkin
(C) Margaret Benston
(D) Friedrich Engels
Ans: (D)
85. Match the list of Books (List-I) and Authors (List-II)
List – I List – II
(Books) (Authors)
(a) Second Sex (i) Mary Daly
(b) Gyn/ Ecology (ii) Juliet Mitchell
(c) Sexual Politics (iii) Simon De Beauvoir
(d) Women’s Estate (iv) Kate Millet
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(B) (iii) (i) (iv) (ii)
(C) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
(D) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
Ans: (B)
86. Assertion (A): Sexual Harassment (Prevention) cells have been established in most of the private and public sector organisation.
Reason (R): Working women are subject to sexual harassment at work place.
(A) (A) is true and (R) is false.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation for (A).
(C) (A) is false and (R) is true.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.
Ans: (B)
87. Among the following, who is not a post-modern feminist?
(A) Juliet Mitchell
(B) Helene Cixaus
(C) Luce Irigaray
(D) Jacques Derrida
Ans: (A)
88. Assertion (A): It is very difficult to define the subject of Women’s Studies.
Reason (R): Feminist thoughts and positions are diversified.
Codes:
(A) (A) is wrong and (R) is correct.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
(C) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(D) Both (A) and (R) are correctand (R) is the correctexplanation of (A).
Ans: (D)
89. Who is called an ‘iron lady’ in the field of Indian sports?
(A) P.T. Usha
(B) KarnamMalleswari
(C) SainaNehwal
(D) Mary Com
Ans: (C)
90. Match the prominent women from (List-I) and their position (List-II).
List – I List – II
(a) Margaret Alva (i) Chairperson, National Commission for women
(b) PremaCariayapa (ii) Chairperson, Central Social Welfare Board
(c) Mamta Sharma (iii) Governor of Uttarakhand
(d) Krishna Tirath (iv) Minister for Women and Child Development
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
(B) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
(C) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(D) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
Ans: (B)
91. What are the dimensions taken to measure the Gender Inequality Index (GII)?
(A) Reproductive Health, Labour Market, Literacy and Knowledge.
(B) Employment, Gender wage differentials and Empowerment.
(C) Labour market, Employment and Political participation.
(D) Reproductive Health, Empowerment and Labour market.
Ans: (D)
92. The concept of Socialization of ‘Domestic Labour’ was introduced by
(A) Margaret Benston
(B) Oakley
(C) Firestone
(D) Nancy Chodorow
Ans: (A)
93. Assertion (A): Feminist perspectives on environment challenge the social, cultural and political sources of power in society.
Reason (R): Sustainable Development Challenge the participation of men in pro-ecological ways of living.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(B) (A) is true, (R) is false.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true, (R) is the correct explanation for (A).
(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.
Ans: (B)
94. Match the list of women’s Universities (List-I) and Location (List-II).
List – I List – II
(a) Mother Teresa Women’s University (i) Rajasthan
(b) Sri Padmavati Women’s University (ii) Maharashtra
(c) S.N.D.T. Women’s University (iii) Andhra Pradesh
(d) Banasthali Vidyapeeth (iv) Tamil Nadu
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(B) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
(C) (iv) (i) (iii) (ii)
(D) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
Ans: (A)
95. Mark out the correct answer about Hypothesis:
(i) Hypothesis is a statement, which is yet to be tested.
(ii) Hypothesis is all positive.
(iii) Hypothesis can be null.
(iv) The sources of hypotheses can be the existing theories.
Codes:
(A) (i), (iii) and (iv) only.
(B) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv).
(C) (ii), (iii) and (iv) only.
(D) (i), (ii) and (iii) only.
Ans: (A)
Read the following paragraph and answer question numbers 96 to 100.
In proving women’s inferiority, the anti-feminists began to draw not only upon religion, philosophy, and theology, as before, but also upon science-biology, experimental psychology, etc. At most they were willing to grant ‘equality in difference’ to the other sex. That profitable formula is most significant; it is precisely like the ‘equal but separate’ formula of the Jim Crow laws aimed at the North American Negroes. As is well known, this so-called equalitarian segregation has resulted only in the most extreme discrimination. The similarity jut noted is in no way due to chance, for whether it is a race, a caste, a class, or a sex that is reduced to a position of inferiority, the methods of justification are the same. The ‘eternal feminine’ corresponds to ‘the black soul’ and to ‘the Jewish character’. True, the Jewish problem is on the whole very different from the other two-to the anti-Semite the Jew is not so much an inferior as he is an enemy for whom there is to be granted no place on earth, for whom annihilation is the fate desired. But there are deep similarities between the situation of women and that of the Negro. Both are being emancipated today from a like paternalism, and the former master class wishes to keep them in their place’ – that is, the place chosen for them. In both cases, the former masters lavish more or less sincere eulogies, either on the virtues of ‘the good Negro’ with his dormant, childish, merry soul – the submissive Negro-or on the merits of the woman who is ‘truly feminine’ – that is, frivolous, infantile, irresponsible – the submissive woman. In both cases, the dominant class bases its argumenton a state of affairs that it has itself created. As George Bernard Shaw puts it, in substance, ‘The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.’ This vicious circle is met with in all analogous circumstances; when an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior. But the significance of the verb to be must be rightly understood here; it is in bad faith to give it a static value when it really has the dynamic Hegelian sense of ‘to have become. Yes, women on the whole are today inferior to men; that is, their situation affords them fewer possibilities.
96. Anti-feminists argued for women’s inferiority on the basis of
(i) Philosophy
(ii) Caste
(iii) Biology
(iv) Experimental Psychology
Codes:
(A) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
(B) (ii), (iii) and (iv) only
(C) (i), (iii) and (iv) only
(D) (iii) and (iv) only
Ans: (C)
97. Mark out the correct Answer
The formula of ‘equality in difference’ is profitable for
(A) Emancipating all relegated to the position of inferiority.
(B) Maintaining the status-quo or even enhancing discrimination against women.
(C) Solving the issues of Negroes and Jews.
(D) Minimizing discrimination against women.
Ans: (B)
98. Assertion (A): ‘The eternal feminine’ corresponds to ‘the black soul’ and to ‘the Jewish Character’.
Reason (R): There are deep similarities among the situation of the Jews, the situation of woman and that of the Negro.
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(B) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is wrong and (R) is correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
Ans: (B)
99. How is the situation of woman and that of the Negro is similar?
(i) Both are biologically inferior.
(ii) Both have been liberated from alike paternalism.
(iii) Both have been slave to their masters for their submissiveness.
(iv) Both are responsible for their state of affairs.
Codes:
(A) (ii), (iii) and (iv) only
(B) (i) and (iv) only
(C) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)
(D) (ii) and (iii) only
Ans: (A)
100. Assertion (A): Women on the whole are today inferior to men and their situation will continue.
Reason (R): The vicious circle of inferiority is static and not dynamic.
Codes:
(A) (A) is correct and (R) is wrong.
(B) (A) is wrong and (R) is correct.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Ans: (C)