CG SCERT Chhattisgarh State Board Class 7 Social Science (Civics) Chapter 7 Society and Role of Women Exercises Questions and Answers.
(I.) (a.) All societies do not think similarly about the roles that boys and girls play.
Ans. True
Supportive example: Give different toys to play with Boys are usually given cars to play with and girls dolls.
(b.) Our society does not make distinctions between boys and girls when they are growing up.
Ans. False.
Supportive example: Girls must speak softly or boys need to be tough. All these are ways of telling children that they have specific roles to play when they grow up to be men and women.
(c.) Women who stay at home do not work.
Ans. False.
Supportive example: Across the world, the main responsibility for housework and care-giving tasks, like looking after the family, especially children, the elderly and sick members, lies with women, Yet, as we have seen, the work that women do within the home is not recognised as work.
(d.) The work that women do is less valued than that of men.
Ans. False
Supportive example: As we have seen the low value attached to women’s household and care giving work is not a individual or family matter. It is a part of a larger system of inequality between men and women.
(II.) Make a list of toys and games that boys typically play and another for girls. If there is a difference between the two lists, can you think of some reasons why this is so? Does this have any relationship to the roles children have to play as adults?
Ans. Boys and girls are given different toys and games to play with. Boys are usually given cars to play with and girls dolls.
There is a difference between the two lists. This difference is created because societies make clear distinctions between boys and girls.
Yes this have relationship to the roles children have to play as adults. Toys become a way of telling children that they have different futures when they become adults.
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