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

Total Questions: 100

51. "I cannot be an Asian American on Monday, a woman on Tuesday, a lesbian on Wednesday, a worker/student on Thursday, and a political radical on Friday. I am all these things every day." What does this statement imply?

(a) The personal and the political are one.
(b) The interconnections between the various kinds of oppression each woman face in her life.
(c) Women's identity is a single strand.
(d) The unity and wholeness of women.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: A. (a), (b) only

52. According to Audre Lorde, when a woman walks into a room filled with women from all over the world, she wants to minimize her differences from them and strains to focus on women's oneness." This type of behaviour explains:

(a) The inability to forge the kind of alliances necessary to create a better world.
(b) A total denial of the creative function of the difference in our lives.
(c) The intention to sweep women's differences under the rug.
(d) A focus on women's diversities.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: B. (a), (b) and (c) only

53. What does Robin Morgan mean when she writes. "Women are the world's proletariat?"

(a) Even though housework constitutes 60 to 80 per cent of most nations' economics, it continues to suffer from gross national product invisibility.
(b) Marginal female labour force is a highly convenient asset: cheap, always available, easily and callously disposed of.
(c) Women are unskilled, incompetent and not trained to earn the same remuneration as a man.
(d) Women and men receive the same wages for the same type of work.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: A. (a), (b) only

54. The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW or UNCSW):

(a) Does not limit participation to states only. For example, NGOs are also allowed to participate in sessions of the CSW.
(b) In 1995, the Commission held the Fourth World Conference for Action in Beijing.
(c) The CSW was not a part of drafting the Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
(d) The UNCSW was established in 1964.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: A. (a), (b) only

55. Cuba's Fidel Castro once proposed that "hairdressers remain open during the evening to ease the burden of the woman who is employed during the day but needs to be attractive in her housewife's role at night". What does this statement reveal?

(a) Exposes sexist solutions.
(b) Shows no awareness of the situation of female hairdressers, who might not be able to work night shifts, because of their own family responsibilities.
(c) Strategies that are feasible for women who need to support their families.
(d) Governments understand women's complaints about their "double day".

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: A. (a), (b) only

56. Feminism is defined by the belief that women's relative subordination must be questioned and addressed through

(a) Feminist Research
(b) Feminist Theory
(c) Feminist Orientalism
(d) Feminist Politics

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: C. (a), (b) and (d) only

57. What is the need for the Sexual Harassment of Women at the Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013?

(a) Sexual harassment remained unspeakable for centuries
(b) Sexual harassment being prevalent but nameless
(c) To reduce workforce participation of women in wage labour
(d) Sexual harassment reduces the women's workforce participation

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: B. (a), (b) and (d) only

58. Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) is calculated on the basis of the following indicators:

(a) Women's Employment
(b) Seat in Parliament
(c) Reproductive Health
(d) Share of Household income

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: C. (a), (b) and (d) only

59. How Patriarchy operates at school level?

(a) Through hidden curriculum
(b) Gendered socialization within school
(c) Gender-neutral contents
(d) Gendered nature of sports and games

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: D. (a), (b) and (d) only

60. Women's Education led to:

(a) Increased labour force participation
(b) Decrease in fertility level
(c) Increased Gender-based violence
(d) Decrease in Child mortality

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: C. (a), (b), (d) only