UGC NET/JRF EXAM, June-2022 WOMEN’S STUDIES

Total Questions: 100

31. The key global policy document that member states of the United Nations reaffirmed to enhance their commitment to Gender Equality is:

Correct Answer: D. Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action

32. When was the Women's Reservation Bill introduced in the Parliament of India?

Correct Answer: A. 1996

33. What should be the total number of workers in an establishment to make it mandatory to establish creches under the Maternity Benefit Act as amended in 2017?

Correct Answer: C. more than 50 workers

34. The goal of first wave of feminism was:

Correct Answer: A. Women's Suffrage

35. Who is the author of the famous work 'The Symbolic Annihilation of Women by the Mass Media'?

Correct Answer: D. Gaye Tuchman

36. Cinema, television, magazines are 'technologies of gender' (as well of 'race', class and other differences): the representation of gender is its construction. Whose statement is this?

Correct Answer: A. Theresa de Lauretis

37. Who first defined the term stereotype in his book 'Public Opinion' (1922)?

Correct Answer: B. Water Lippmann

38. Gender expression refers to which of the following?

Correct Answer: C. The way in which a person acts to communicate gender within a given culture

39. Encoding/decoding model of communication was developed by:

Correct Answer: A. Stuart Hall

40. Which feminist researchers among the following argue that objectivity needs to be transformed into "feminist objectivity"?

Correct Answer: A. Donna Haraway, Sandra Harding and Kum-Kum Bhavnani