RBSE Class 7 Social Science Notes Civics Chapter 5 Women Change the World

These comprehensive RBSE Class 7 Social Science Notes Civics Chapter 5 Women Change the World will give a brief overview of all the concepts.

RBSE Class 7 Social Science Notes Civics Chapter 5 Women Change the World

→ Fewer opportunities and rigid expectations:

• It is believed that outside the home too, women are good at only certain jobs. For example, work of a nurse because they are more patient and gentle.
• It is believed that science requires a technical mind and girls and women are not capable of dealing with technical things. So, many girls do not get the same support that boys do to study and train to become doctors and engineers.
• In current society all children face pressures from the world around them.

→ Learning for change:

• Today, it is normal for all children to go to school. But in the past, the skill of reading and writing was known to only a few.
• Most children learnt the work their families did. For girls, the situation was worse. Daughters were not allowed to learn the alphabet. The contribution of daughters and women was only seen as supportive.
• In the nineteenth century, many new ideas about education emerged. Schools became more common and communities started sending their children to school. Yet many women and men made efforts to open schools for girls. Women struggled to learn to read and write. Example-Ramabai, Rashsundari Devi, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain etc.

→ Schooling and education today:

• Today, both boys and girls attend school in large numbers. Yet, there still remain
• differences between the education of boys and girls. The percentage of the male group is still higher than the female group.
• At present, the drop-out rate of children belonging to Dalit, Adivasi and Muslim communities is high due to lack of proper school and teachers, poverty, discrimination and lack of traffic.

→ Women’s movement and its strategies:

• Women’s movement: Women have struggled to improve their conditions in relation to education, legal reform, violence and health under the women’s movement.
• Women’s Movement Strategies: In women’s movement different strategies have been used to spread awareness, fight discrimination and seek justice. Main strategies are:
  • Campaigning,
  • Raising Awareness,
  • Protesting,
  • Showing Solidarity.