Sociology of Gender

1 of 2 sets

Chapter: Unit 1

1. Women’s movement in India began in the year ;

A. 1974-1975
B. 1975-1976
C. 1976-1977
D. 1977-1978
Answer:A

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2. The Research Centre for Women Studies (RCWS) in India was set up in
A. 1974
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D. 1980
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3. The Centre for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS) in India was founded in
A. 1976
B. 1978
C. 1980
D. 1986
Answer:C

4. In which year did the UGC bring out the guidelines for development of women
studies in Indian Universities and Colleges ?
A. 1986
B. 1987
C. 1988
D. 1989
Answer:A
5. The Indian Association for Women Studies (IAWS) was set up on
A. October 28, 1982
B. September 23, 1988
C. August 28, 1982
D. November 23, 1982
Answer:C

6. The committee on the status of women in India released a report in

A. 1971
B. 1972
C. 1973
D. 1974
Answer:D

7. The first national conference on women’s studies was held in the year
A. 1981
B. 1982
C. 1983
D. 1984
Answer:A

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’?
A. Uma Chakravarti
B. Neera Desai
C. Veena Mazumdar
D. Maithreyi Krishnaraja
Answer:C

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?
A. Armaity Desai
B. Madhuri Shah

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 C. Yash Pal
D. Virander Singh
Answer:A

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’?
A. Liberal feminist
B. Cultural feminist
C. Marxist feminist
D. Radical feminist
Answer:A

11. After whose name was the women’s division of the Indian National Army
named?
A. Chand Bibi
B. Rani Jhansi
C. Sultana Rajia
D. Aralyabai
Answer:B

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?
A. 1960s
B. 1970s
C. 1980s
D. 1990s
Answer:A

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?
A. 7th Five Year plan
B. 8th Five Year Plan
C. 9th Five Year Plan
D. 10th Five Year Plan

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Answer:C

14. Which committee has recommended the establishment of ‘National

Commission for Women?
A. Committee on status of women in India
B. Parliamentary committee for women
C. High power committee for women
D. National Empowerment Committee for Women
Answer:A

15. Which of the following is India’s first women photo-journalist?

A. Homai Vyarawalla
B. Shobana Bhartia
C. Arundhati Roy
D. Leela Menon
Answer:A

16. Which of the following structural variables determine women’s work in India?
A. Regional differences
B. Labour market
C. The family, caste, class and region
D. All of the above
Answer:D

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?
A. 73rd & 74th Constitutional Amendment Act
B. 102nd Constitutional Amendment Act
C. 103rd Constitutional Amendment Act
D. 104th Constitutional Amendment Act
Answer:A

18. Which of the following are the major objectives of ‘Beti Bachao Beti Pachao
Yojana’?
A. Prevention of gender based sex selective abortion

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 B. Ensuring survival and protection of girl child
C. Ensuring education and participation of girl child
D. All of the above
Answer:D

19. Which of the following universities first started a course on women’s studies?
A. Oxford university
B. S.N.D.T. University
C. Cornell University
D. San Diego State University
Answer:C

20. Which of the following Universities first started a course on women’s studies in
India?
A. SNDT Women’s University
B. Delhi University
C. Jawaharlal Nehru University
D. Banaras Hindu University
Answer:A

21. Who said the following :‘Educate your women first and leave them themselves,
then they will tell you what reforms are necessary for them’
A. Swami Vivekananda
B. Mahatma Gandhi
C. Dr. BR. Ambedkar
D. Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer:A

22. Who was the Minister of Women and Child Development when the National
Policy on Empowerment of Women was framed?
A. Krishna Tirath
B. Renuka Choudhary
C. Manela Sanjay Gandhi
D. Sumitra Mahajan
Answer:D

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23. As per ‘Sukanya Samridi Yojana’ the parents of girl children can open an
account for a girl child up to the age of
A. 5 years
B. 10 years
C. 15 years
D. 18 years
Answer:B

24. The 2016 Women Economic Forum (WEF) has been hosted by which of the
following countries?
A. India
B. Brazil
C. South Africa
D. Russia
Answer:A

25. The protagonists of the Reformist movement on women’s issues in India were
A. Iswara Chandra Vidyasagar and Raja Ram Mohan Roy
B. Jawaharla Nehru and Sri Aurobindo
C. Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Gandhiji
D. Vijaylaxmi Pandit and Gandhiji
Answer:A

26. Which of the following is correct with regard to women’s studies curriculum?
A. The study of subjects relating to women, their roles in history and their contributions to society
B. The multi-disciplinary study of the social status and societal contributions of women and the
relationship between power and gender disparity
C. A critical instrument to study reality from the standpoint of women
D. All of the above
Answer:D

27. What is the strength of the Indian Women’s Studies movement?

A. Diversity within women’s studies in terms of sources of research, information, documentation
and action
B. Women’s studies centres are being supported by the University Grants Commission

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 C. Some women’s studies centres have also been funded by the Indian Council of Social Science
Research
D. All of the above
Answer:D

28. Which of the following are duties of the Protection of Women from Domestic
Violence Act, 2005?
A. Assisting the magistrate in the discharge of his/her functions
B. To ensure that the assumed person is provided legal aid under the Legal Services Authorities
Act, 1987
C. To get the aggrieved person medically examined if she has sustained bodily injuries
D. All of the above
Answer:D

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’?
A. Article 243T(B)
B. Article 243 P
C. Article 243 R
D. Article 243Y
Answer:A

30. In which of the following dates did a delegation of women met ‘the erstwhile
viceroy Frederic Thesiger to demand voting rights for women’?
A. March 24, 1917
B. December 18, 1917
C. November 18, 1916
D. March 21, 1921
Answer:B

31. Under which section of Criminal Procedure Code can a woman not be called to
the police station for interrogation?
A. Section 160
B. Section 158

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 C. Section 163
D. Section 166
Answer:A

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’?
A. Sarojini Naidu
B. Subhash Chandra Bose
C. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
D. Mahatma Gandhi
Answer:D

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?
A. Oppression, exploitation and patriarchy
B. Equality, empowerment and employment
C. Patriarchy, power and protection
D. Participation, reservation and development
Answer:A

34. Which are the statutory bodies under the Ministry of Women and Child
Development?
A. National Commission for women
B. National Commission for Protection of Child Rights
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. None of the above
Answer:C

35. Who was the author of the book ‘A decade of Women’s Movement in India’?
A. Vandana Shiva
B. Neera Desai
C. Vina Mazumdar
D. Bina Agarwal
Answer:B

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36. The Ministry of Women and Child Development formulated The National
Policy on Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) in :
A. 2011
B. 2012
C. 2013
D. 2014
Answer:C

37. What is correct about women’s studies?

A. Few men take interest in women’s studies
B. Women’s studies is a social science
C. Both(a) and (b)
D. None of the above
Answer:C

38. How does women’s studies affect students as individuals?

A. Students get the scientific knowledge about the power relation between men and women
B. Students get appraised of the feminist perspective of the social issues
C. Women’s studies courses are structural to encourage students to speak
D. All of the above
Answer:D

39. The need for women’s studies was realized when concerned women and men
noticed ______
A. The presence of women in higher education curriculum
B. The ways in which women were systematically excluded from many positions of power and
authority
C. The way masculinity and femininity interacted with each other and come closer
D. The way history courses taught only about women as leaders in wars
Answer:B

40. The emergence of women studies as an academic discipline is the result of:
A. First Wave Feminism
B. Second Wave Feminism
C. Third Wave Feminism
D. Fourth Wave Feminism

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Answer:B

Chapter: Unit 2 Social Construction of gender

41. Which of the following states first launched transgender policy in India?
A. Tamil Nadu
B. Maharashtra
C. Andhra Pradesh
D. Kerala
Answer:D

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?
A. Gender Empowerment Indicator
B. Gender Sensitive Indicator
C. Gender Inequality Indicator
D. Gender Disaggregated Indicator
Answer:B

43. Which of the following variable is most critical for those who focus on gender
oppression theory?
A. Power
B. Money
C. Mothering
D. Culture
Answer:A

44. In which year was the Global Gender Gap Index first introduced?
A. 2002
B. 2004
C. 2006
D. 2007
Answer:C

45. The anatomical and other biological differences between males and females
that are determined at the moment of conception denote the ___ of the individual

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 A. masculinity
B. femininity
C. sex
D. gender
Answer:C

46. _____ is a term that refers to social or cultural distinctions associated with
being male or female.
A. feminism
B. gender identity
C. sex
D. gender
Answer:D

47. Transvestites, drag queens, drag king and intersected individuals can be
included in the broad category of
A. homosexuals
B. transexuals
C. transgendered individuals
D. bisexuals
Answer:C

48. Which perspective argues that men and women perform separate, specialized
and complementary roles to maintain cohesiveness within families and the wider
society?
A. feminist
B. functionalist
C. symbolic interactionist
D. conflict theorist
Answer:B

49. Personal sense of one’s own gender is called

A. sex
B. gender
C. gender identity
D. third gender

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Answer:C

50. What is gender?

A. Word that stands for men only
B. Word that stands for women only
C. It tells if a person is male or female
D. It is another word for feminism
Answer:C

51. Boy, man, uncle, grandfather, etc. are

A. Feminine titles
B. Masculine titles
C. Both feminine and masculine titles
D. None of the above
Answer:B

52. Examples of feminine titles are

A. Mother and daughter
B. Girl and grandfather
C. Policeman and waitress
D. None of the above
Answer:A

53. ___ refers to the socially constructed attributes of being male or female.
A. gender
B. sex
C. femininity
D. masculinity
Answer:A

54. a concept in which individuals are categorized, either by themselves or by

society, as neither man nor woman is called
A. masculine gender
B. feminine gender
C. third gender
D. seamstress

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Answer:C

55. The set of chromosomes which defines a genetic male is

A. XX
B. XYY
C. XY
D. XXY
Answer:C

56. In differentiating the terms ‘sex’ and ‘gender’

A. Sex refers to biological aspects of identity and gender refers to psychological and social
identity
B. Sex refers to socio-cultural identity and gender refers to cultural identity
C. Sex refers to socio-cultural identity and gender refers to biological identity
D. None of the above
Answer:A

57. An individual who identifies a role that is opposite to his/her biological sex is
called
A. homosexual
B. transgender
C. feminine
D. masculine
Answer:B

58. India’s Supreme Court recognizes transgender people as

A. Third gender
B. homosexual
C. gender identity
D. None of the above
Answer:A

59. Third gender refers to

A. A gender classification in societies that recognize a gender other than male or female
B. A person who identifies as a gender other than male or female or as neither male nor female
C. Both (a) and (b)

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 D. None of the above
Answer:C

60. The Supreme Court of India formally recognised the existence of a third gender
in
A. April of 2014
B. April of 2015
C. April of 2016
D. April of 2017
Answer:A

61. Which is wrong about gender responsive budget?

A. Gender Budgeting does not seek to create a separate budget but to provide affirmative action
to address the specific needs of women
B. Gender Budgeting involves dissection of the government to establish its gender differential
impacts and to translate gender commitments into budgetary commitments
C. Gender Budgeting is an accounting exercise or a process to ensure that benefits of
development should reach all the minorities
D. Gender Budgeting entails maintaining a gender perspective at various stages like
programmes/policy formulation,etc.
Answer:C

62. Census 2011 identifies____ districts as ‘gender critical districts’

A. 162
B. 211
C. 249
D. 262
Answer:D

63. Society’s expectation of people’s behavior and attitudes based on whether they
are females or males is called
A. Gender roles
B. Gender identity
C. Femininity
D. Masculinity

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Answer:A

64. Gender Lens refers to

A. Creating awareness about gender
B. Providing visibility to gender issues
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. None of the above
Answer:C

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
A. Primary sex characteristics
B. Secondary sex characteristics
C. Tertiary sex characteristics
D. Quaternary sex characteristics
Answer:A

66. Cultural behavioural expectations for males or females is called

A. Gender roles
B. Gender identity
C. Gender types
D. None of the above
Answer:A

67. A female-to-male (FTM) transgender person who was assigned female at birth,
but whose gender identity is that of man is called:
A. Trans Man
B. Trans Female
C. Homosexual
D. Third Gender
Answer:A

68. Transgender in India have fought for and got voting rights in the year
A. 1994
B. 1996

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 C. 2002
D. 2014
Answer:A

69. What is gendered division of labour?

A. It negates the ‘double burden’
B. It is based on gender-structure conceptions of appropriate work
C. It is increase in women’s compensation worldwide
D. It is caste-based division of labour
Answer:B

70. ‘Biological males who reject their masculinity identity in due course of time to
identify as women’ are known as
A. Trans women
B. Trans men
C. Transgender
D. Androgyneous
Answer:C

71. Which statement about primary sex characteristics is true?

A. They include the formation of breasts and growth of beards
B. They are directly involved in human reproduction
C. They develop during puberty
D. They are the same for males and females
Answer:A

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:
A. Bisexual
B. Third Gender
C. Trans man
D. Trans woman
Answer:D

73. The concept of gender was developed by feminists during the:

A. 1940s

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 B. 1950s
C. 1960s
D. 1970s
Answer:D

74. A set of attributes, behavioursand roles associated with boys and men is called:
A. Masculinity
B. Femininity
C. Homosexuality
D. Patriarchy
Answer:A

75. A set of attributes, behaviours and roles associated with girls and women is
called:
A. Masculinity
B. Femininity
C. Gender
D. Feminism
Answer:B

76. According to the latest judgement of the Supreme Court, which category does
the transgender belong to?
A. General category
B. SC category
C. Backward category
D. OBC category
Answer:C

77. Which of the following is a primary agency for gender construction?

A. Caste
B. Class
C. Social system
D. Family
Answer:D

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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:
A. Homosexuality
B. Bisexuality
C. Transgender
D. All of the above
Answer:C

79. According to sociologists, gender behavior is:

A. earned
B. biological
C. a given
D. learned
Answer:D

80. What is the sociological definition of gender?

A. The characteristics, behaviours and norms that society ascribes to a person of one sex or the
other.
B. Whether a person is biologically and anatomically male or female or transgender.
C. Whether a person considers himself/herself to be male or female.
D. The behaviours and characteristics that are produced by a person that is anatomically male or
anatomically female.
Answer:A

Chapter: Geographical Perspective of gender role

81. Gender roles refer to

A. Chromosomal difference that causes inevitable differences in the behaviour of men and
women
B. Hormonal differences that causes inevitable differences in the behavior of women
C. The rights, responsibilities, expectation and relationships of women and men
D. Subordination of women based on the assumption of superiority of men
Answer:C

82. Mark the correct statement about gender inequality

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 A. Gender form of inequality is more severe than caste form of inequality
B. Gender inequality is like class inequality
C. Gender inequality is the creation of caste society only
D. Gender inequality is not observed in open society
Answer:A

83. Society’s expectation of people’s behaviour and attitudes based on whether they
are females or males is called:
A. Femininity
B. Gender inequality
C. Gender roles
D. Masculinity
Answer:C

84. The ____ perspective combines the exploitation of women by capitalism with
patriarchy in the home in its analysis of gender inequality
A. Socialist feminist
B. Radical feminist
C. Liberal feminist
D. Democratic feminist
Answer:A

85. What is correct about religion?

A. It is a unified system of beliefs and practices
B. It is a source of value system which sets the rationale for social actions
C. Different religions set the different guidelines for the lifestyles of the people
D. All of the above
Answer:D

86. Among the following, which is not related to third wave of feminism?
A. Queer theory
B. Defending sex work
C. Abolishing gender roles
D. Suffrage movement
Answer:D

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87. Who coined the term ‘Third Wave Feminism’?
A. Alice Walker
B. Rebecca Walker
C. Jane Adams
D. Mary Richmond
Answer:B

88. Which form of feminism is most committed to challenging the essentialist

nature of the category ‘women’??
A. Radical
B. Post modern
C. Socialist
D. Liberal
Answer:B

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?
A. Liberal feminism
B. Radical feminism
C. Socialist feminism
D. Marxist feminism
Answer:A

90. Which feminist thought suggests that gender equality can be realised by
eliminating the cultural notion of gender?
A. Post modern feminism
B. Socialist feminism
C. Radical feminism
D. Neo-classical feminism
Answer:C

91. A hierarchical system in which cultural, political and economic structures are
dominated by males is a
A. Elite model
B. Pluralist model
C. Gendered division of labour

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 D. patriarchy
Answer:D

92. An ideology that exaggerates the difference between men and women and
rationalizes the superiority of males is called
A. Feminism
B. Gender inequality
C. Masculinity
D. Sexism
Answer:D

93. Which wave of feminism had the slogan, ‘The personal is political’?
A. First wave
B. Second wave
C. Third wave
D. Fourth wave
Answer:B

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
A. Feminism
B. Masculinity
C. Patriarchy
D. Gender inequality
Answer:D

95. The main goal of feminism is to:

A. Assert minority rights
B. Change the patriarchal nature of society
C. Protect women from alienation
D. Influence the government
Answer:B

96. The process by which we learn our culture’s gender-related rules, norms and
expectations is known as

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 A. Gender socialization
B. Gender roles
C. Gender identity
D. None of the above
Answer:A

97. According to Marxist Feminism, women’s oppression is due to what?

A. Self esteem
B. Equal rights
C. Economic dependence
D. Financial dependence
Answer:C

98. The theory that men and women should be treated equally is also sometimes
called
A. Core Feminism
B. Core Feminist Theory
C. Core Feminism or Core Feminist Theory
D. All of the above
Answer:D

99. Which of the following divisions is unique to India?

A. Gender division
B. Caste division
C. Economic division
D. Religious division
Answer:B

100. A person who supports feminism is called

A. Female
B. Male feminists
C. Feminist
D. None of the above
Answer:C

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