2. The Research Centre for Women Studies (RCWS) in India was set up in
Correct : A. 1974
3. The Centre for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS) in India was founded in
Correct : C. 1980
4. In which year did the UGC bring out the guidelines for development of women
studies in Indian Universities and Colleges ?
Correct : A. 1986
5. The Indian Association for Women Studies (IAWS) was set up on
Correct : C. August 28, 1982
6. The committee on the status of women in India released a report in
Correct : D. 1974
7. The first national conference on women’s studies was held in the year
Correct : A. 1981
8. Who among the following feminists referred women’s studies to as ‘the academic arm of women’s movement, a potent instrument playing a deliberate and active role in the battle for people’s minds’ and ‘autonomy continues to be battle cry of both’?
Correct : C. Veena Mazumdar
9. Which chairperson of the UGC gave a fresh perspective to women’s studies by widening the agenda of the programme, strengthening the role of the participants and giving greater academic credibility to the programme?
Correct : A. Armaity Desai
10. Which of the following feminist thinkers believed that ‘female subordination is rooted in a set of customary and legal constraints that block women’s entrance and success in the public world’?
Correct : A. Liberal feminist
11. After whose name was the women’s division of the Indian National Army named?
Correct : B. Rani Jhansi
12. In which year did the women’s movement emerge and had a strong impact on colleges and universities to start women’s studies as an academic discipline?
Correct : A. 1960s
13. In which of the following Five Year Plans for the first time in the history of planned development in India, the empowerment of women was adopted as one of the objectives?
Correct : C. 9th Five Year Plan
14. Which committee has recommended the establishment of ‘National Commission for Women?
Correct : A. Committee on status of women in India
15. Which of the following is India’s first women photo-journalist?
Correct : A. Homai Vyarawalla
16. Which of the following structural variables determine women’s work in India?
Correct : D. All of the above
17. Which constitutional amendment states that the total number of seats to be filled in Panchayats and Municipalities will be reserved for women and should not be less than one third of the total number of seats?
Correct : A. 73rd & 74th Constitutional Amendment Act
18. Which of the following are the major objectives of ‘Beti Bachao Beti Pachao
Yojana’?
Correct : D. All of the above
19. Which of the following universities first started a course on women’s studies?
Correct : C. Cornell University
20. Which of the following Universities first started a course on women’s studies in
India?
Correct : A. SNDT Women’s University
21. Who said the following :‘Educate your women first and leave them themselves,
then they will tell you what reforms are necessary for them’
Correct : A. Swami Vivekananda
22. Who was the Minister of Women and Child Development when the National
Policy on Empowerment of Women was framed?
Correct : D. Sumitra Mahajan
23. As per ‘Sukanya Samridi Yojana’ the parents of girl children can open an account
for a girl child up to the age of
Correct : B. 10 years
24. The 2016 Women Economic Forum (WEF) has been hosted by which of the
following countries?
Correct : A. India
25. The protagonists of the Reformist movement on women’s issues in India were
Correct : A. Iswara Chandra Vidyasagar and Raja Ram Mohan Roy
26. Which of the following is correct with regard to women’s studies curriculum?
Correct : D. All of the above
27. What is the strength of the Indian Women’s Studies movement?
Correct : D. All of the above
28. Which of the following are duties of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005?
Correct : D. All of the above
29. Which Article of the Indian Constitution provides that ‘not less than one-third (including number of seats reserved for women belonging to SC and ST) of the total number of seats to be filled by direct elections in every municipality shall be reserved for women and seats may be allotted by rotation to different constituencies in a municipality’?
Correct : A. Article 243T(B)
30. In which of the following dates did a delegation of women met ‘the erstwhile viceroy Frederic Thesiger to demand voting rights for women’?
Correct : B. December 18, 1917
31. Under which section of Criminal Procedure Code can a woman not be called to
the police station for interrogation?
Correct : A. Section 160
32. Who made the following statement, ‘As long as the women of India do not take part in public life there can be no salvation for the country’?
Correct : D. Mahatma Gandhi
33. After 1977, the women’s movement developed quite differently from the earlier movement. Autonomous women’s groups emerged in the country. In the beginning, which were their basic common issues?
Correct : A. Oppression, exploitation and patriarchy
34. Which are the statutory bodies under the Ministry of Women and Child Development?
Correct : C. Both (a) and (b)
35. Who was the author of the book ‘A decade of Women’s Movement in India’?
Correct : B. Neera Desai
36. The Ministry of Women and Child Development formulated The National Policy
on Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) in :
Correct : C. 2013
37. What is correct about women’s studies?
Correct : C. Both(a) and (b)
38. How does women’s studies affect students as individuals?
Correct : D. All of the above
39. The need for women’s studies was realized when concerned women and men noticed ______
Correct : B. The ways in which women were systematically excluded from many positions of power and authority
40. The emergence of women studies as an academic discipline is the result of:
Correct : B. Second Wave Feminism
41. Which of the following states first launched transgender policy in India?
Correct : D. Kerala
42. Which of the following indicator is used to measure the changes in the status and roles of women and men over a period of time?
Correct : B. Gender Sensitive Indicator
43. Which of the following variable is most critical for those who focus on gender oppression theory?
Correct : A. Power
44. In which year was the Global Gender Gap Index first introduced?
Correct : C. 2006
45. The anatomical and other biological differences between males and females that are determined at the moment of conception denote the ___ of the individual
Correct : C. sex
46. _____ is a term that refers to social or cultural distinctions associated with being
male or female.
Correct : D. gender
47. Transvestites, drag queens, drag king and intersected individuals can be included
in the broad category of
Correct : C. transgendered individuals
48. Which perspective argues that men and women perform separate, specialized and complementary roles to maintain cohesiveness within families and the wider society?
Correct : B. functionalist
49. Personal sense of one’s own gender is called
Correct : C. gender identity
50. What is gender?
Correct : C. It tells if a person is male or female
51. Boy, man, uncle, grandfather, etc. are
Correct : B. Masculine titles
52. Examples of feminine titles are
Correct : A. Mother and daughter
53. ___ refers to the socially constructed attributes of being male or female.
Correct : A. gender
54. a concept in which individuals are categorized, either by themselves or by society,
as neither man nor woman is called
Correct : C. third gender
55. The set of chromosomes which defines a genetic male is
Correct : C. XY
56. In differentiating the terms ‘sex’ and ‘gender’
Correct : A. Sex refers to biological aspects of identity and gender refers to psychological and social identity
57. An individual who identifies a role that is opposite to his/her biological sex is called
Correct : B. transgender
58. India’s Supreme Court recognizes transgender people as
Correct : A. Third gender
59. Third gender refers to
Correct : C. Both (a) and (b)
60. The Supreme Court of India formally recognised the existence of a third gender in
Correct : A. April of 2014
61. Which is wrong about gender responsive budget?
Correct : C. Gender Budgeting is an accounting exercise or a process to ensure that benefits of development should reach all the minorities
62. Census 2011 identifies____ districts as ‘gender critical districts’
Correct : D. 262
63. Society’s expectation of people’s behavior and attitudes based on whether they are females or males is called
Correct : A. Gender roles
64. Gender Lens refers to
Correct : C. Both (a) and (b)
65. External and common differences between men and women that do not include genitalia, such as differences in height, men’s ability to grows beards and women’s ability to grow breasts are examples of
Correct : A. Primary sex characteristics
66. Cultural behavioural expectations for males or females is called
Correct : A. Gender roles
67. A female-to-male (FTM) transgender person who was assigned female at birth, but whose gender identity is that of man is called:
Correct : A. Trans Man
68. Transgender in India have fought for and got voting rights in the year
Correct : A. 1994
69. What is gendered division of labour?
Correct : B. It is based on gender-structure conceptions of appropriate work
70. ‘Biological males who reject their masculinity identity in due course of time to identify as women’ are known as
Correct : C. Transgender
71. Which statement about primary sex characteristics is true?
Correct : A. They include the formation of breasts and growth of beards
72. A male-to-female(MTF) transgender person who was assigned male at birth, but whose gender identity is that of a woman is called:
Correct : D. Trans woman
73. The concept of gender was developed by feminists during the:
Correct : D. 1970s
74. A set of attributes, behavioursand roles associated with boys and men is called:
Correct : A. Masculinity
75. A set of attributes, behaviours and roles associated with girls and women is called:
Correct : B. Femininity
76. According to the latest judgement of the Supreme Court, which category does the transgender belong to?
Correct : C. Backward category
77. Which of the following is a primary agency for gender construction?
Correct : D. Family
78. An umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression, or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth is called:
Correct : C. Transgender
79. According to sociologists, gender behavior is:
Correct : D. learned
80. What is the sociological definition of gender?
Correct : A. The characteristics, behaviours and norms that society ascribes to a person of one sex or the other.
81. Gender roles refer to
Correct : C. The rights, responsibilities, expectation and relationships of women and men
82. Mark the correct statement about gender inequality
Correct : A. Gender form of inequality is more severe than caste form of inequality
83. Society’s expectation of people’s behaviour and attitudes based on whether they are females or males is called:
Correct : C. Gender roles
84. The ____ perspective combines the exploitation of women by capitalism with patriarchy in the home in its analysis of gender inequality
Correct : A. Socialist feminist
85. What is correct about religion?
Correct : D. All of the above
86. Among the following, which is not related to third wave of feminism?
Correct : D. Suffrage movement
87. Who coined the term ‘Third Wave Feminism’?
Correct : B. Rebecca Walker
88. Which form of feminism is most committed to challenging the essentialist nature of the category ‘women’??
Correct : B. Post modern
89. Which approach of feminism concentrated on rights only in public sphere and neglected the need for equity of freedom and regard in home life?
Correct : A. Liberal feminism
90. Which feminist thought suggests that gender equality can be realised by eliminating
the cultural notion of gender?
Correct : C. Radical feminism
91. A hierarchical system in which cultural, political and economic structures are dominated by males is a
Correct : D. patriarchy
92. An ideology that exaggerates the difference between men and women and rationalizes
the superiority of males is called
Correct : D. Sexism
93. Which wave of feminism had the slogan, ‘The personal is political’?
Correct : B. Second wave
94. Women are often denied their social, cultural, economic and political rights leading to a decline in the condition of women. This gender based inequality against women is called
Correct : D. Gender inequality
95. The main goal of feminism is to:
Correct : B. Change the patriarchal nature of society
96. The process by which we learn our culture’s gender-related rules, norms and expectations is known as
Correct : A. Gender socialization
97. According to Marxist Feminism, women’s oppression is due to what?
Correct : C. Economic dependence
98. The theory that men and women should be treated equally is also sometimes called
Correct : D. All of the above
99. Which of the following divisions is unique to India?