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NEW GULF INDIAN SCHOOL
MAHBOULA-KUWAIT
CIVICS
Grade VII CHAPTER 5 : WOMEN CHANGE THE WORLD – NOTES
VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTION:

1. Give the name of book written by Ramabai.
Ans: Pandita.
2. Name the important part of the women’s movement.

Ans: An important part of the women’s movement is fight against discrimination and
violence including domestic and mental violence.
3.Name the important struggles under women movement activities.

Answer: Campaigning, raising awareness, protesting, showing solidarity etc., are
some of the important struggles under women movements’ activities.
4. What was the main role recognized for girls?

Ans: The main role of girls was recognized as kitchen work and marriage only.
5. What do you mean by ‘Stereotype’?

Ans: Any belief that many people have about all people or things with a particular
characteristic is called as a ‘Stereotype’.
6. What is ‘Women’s movement’?

Ans: The feminist movement refers to a series of social movements and Political
campaigns for reforms on women’s issues created by the inequality between men and
women.
7. What are the effects of domestic violence?

Ans: 1. Depression 2. Anxiety 3. Posttraumatic stress 4. Increased risk of diseases 5.
Premature mortality
8. What do people believe about the women?

Ans: Many people believe that women make better nurses because they are more
patient and gentler. It is believed that science requires a technical mind and girls, and
women are not capable of dealing with technical things.
9. What message do we get from the story of Laxmi Lakra?

Ans: The story of Laxmi Lakra tells us that girls also can do every job and compete in
the exam. The story encourages us all that girls should be given full opportunity in
every field of life.
10. What did children do in the past?

Ans: In the past, the skill of reading and writing was known to only a few. Most
children learnt the work their families or elders did.
11. What role was played by the girls in the families of artisans?
Ans: In the artisan’s families where traditional works such as skills like pottery,
weaving and craft are undertaken, the contribution of daughters and women role is
supportive. Gradually, the children also achieve the expertise in the traditional work.
12. What changes occurred in 19th century for girls’ education?

Ans: In the nineteenth century, many new ideas about education and learning
emerged, schools became more common and those whose ancestors never learnt
reading and writing had started sending their children to school.
13. Why was Ramabai given the title ‘Pandita”?

Ans: Ramabai was given the title Pandita because she could read and write Sanskrit.
Those days such knowledge was not allowed.
14. What was achievement of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain for the girls?
Ans: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain started a school for the girl which is functioning even
today.
SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTION:
1. What do you understand about stereotypes and how do it affect the girls?
Ans: When we believe that people belonging to particular groups are bound to have
certain fixed characteristics or can only do a certain type of work, is called
stereotypes. Many people believe in stereotypes and do not provide education to the
girls as they do to the boys. Due to the stereotypical thinking, in most families, once
girls finish school, family member are encouraged to see marriage as their main aim in
life.
2. Briefly describe the story of Laxmi Lakra.

Ans: Laxmi Lakra was girl and poor, but she got diploma in electronics and then
passed the railway board exam in first attempt. Her parents were not literate, but they
struggled and overcame many hardships to make sure their children got an education.
She studied hard and did well and then went on to get a diploma in electronics.
Finally, Laxmi Lakra who belonged from a poor tribal family of Jharkhand became
first engine driver in Northern Railways.
3. Write in brief struggle of Rashsundari Devi and her achievements.

Ans: Rashsundari Devi was a housewife from a rich landlord’s family. At that time, it
was believed that if woman will learn to read and write, she will bring bad luck to her
husband and become a widow. About 200 years ago, at the age of 60, she wrote her
autobiography in Bangla. Her book titled Amar Jiban is the first known autobiography
written by an Indian woman.
4. What do you mean by Census?

Ans: Census is undertaken once in every 10 years. The first census was undertaken in
1971. In the Census, many data are accumulated such as number of people, number of
male and female, number of schools going boys and girls, their socio-economic
condition etc. These numbers are gathered as a whole, and various heads are published
as a result. These data are used in the planning of government policies
5. In the field of education mention Muslims and Adivasi status in India.

Ans: The 2001 census also found that Muslim girls are less likely, than Dalit and
Adivasi girls, to complete primary school. There are several reasons why children
from Dalit, Adivasi and Muslim communities leave school. Especially in rural and
poor areas there may not even be proper schools or teachers who teach on a regular
basis. Due to the transport unavailability, unable to bear the cost of educating all their
children, boys may get preference in this situation.
6. What was the result found in the census of 2001 about literacy?
Ans: On the basis of data received from census, the literacy rate is determined. Census
is undertaken once in 10 years. In the most recent census of 2001, these figures have
grown to 76 percent for boys and men, and 54 percent for girls and women. It has
been noticed that SC, ST and Adivasi backgrounds girls leave school at a rate that is
higher than the category ‘All Girls’. However, this gap is reducing but has not gone
away.
7. Why do children leave the school? Give reasons.

Ans: In India, children leave the school for various reasons. Some of them are:
 Many children leave school because they are discriminated by their teachers and
classmates.
 Many places particularly in the rural areas availability of schools is not in the
access of children.
 Many families are unable to teach all children due to the poverty.
 Some of them feel insecurity on the way to school particularly parents of girls etc.
LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTION
1. What was the role played by Women’s Movement in various spheres for women?
Ans: There are other spheres such as – legal, violence and health, where the situation
of women and girls has improved. These changes have not happened automatically.
Women individually and collectively. have struggled to bring about these changes.
This struggle is known as the Women’s Movement. Many men support the women’s
movement.
Different strategies have been used to spread awareness, fight discrimination and seek
justice. Efforts made by the women’s movement led the Supreme Court to formulate
guidelines in 1997 to protect women against sexual harassment at the workplace and
within educational institutions.
2. In what ways have women led their movement?

Ans: Women’s movement have been led by following ways:
 Campaigning: Campaigning is one of the important ways that led the movement.
It was initiated to fight discrimination and violence against women. These
campaigns have also led to new laws being passed. A law was passed in 2006
against domestic violence on the women.
 Raising Awareness: An important part of the women’s movements’ work is to
raise public awareness on women’s rights issues. Their messages have been
spread through street plays, songs and public meetings.
 Protesting: Public rallies and demonstrations Eire a very powerful ways of
drawing attention to injustices.
 Showing solidarity: The women’s movement is also about showing solidarity
with other women and causes.
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NEW GULF INDIAN SCHOOL

VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTION:

2. Name the important part of the women’s movement.

3.Name the important struggles under women movement activities.

4. What was the main role recognized for girls?

5. What do you mean by ‘Stereotype’?

6. What is ‘Women’s movement’?

7. What are the effects of domestic violence?

8. What do people believe about the women?

9. What message do we get from the story of Laxmi Lakra?

10. What did children do in the past?

12. What changes occurred in 19th century for girls’ education?

13. Why was Ramabai given the title ‘Pandita”?

SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTION:

2. Briefly describe the story of Laxmi Lakra.

3. Write in brief struggle of Rashsundari Devi and her achievements.

4. What do you mean by Census?

5. In the field of education mention Muslims and Adivasi status in India.

7. Why do children leave the school? Give reasons.

LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTION

2. In what ways have women led their movement?

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