RBSE Solutions for Class 7 Social Science Civics Chapter 4 Growing up as Boys and Girls

Rajasthan Board RBSE Solutions for Class 7 Social Science  Civics Chapter 4 Growing up as Boys and Girls Textbook Exercise Questions and Answers.

RBSE Class 7 Social Science Solutions Civics Chapter 4 Growing up as Boys and Girls

RBSE Class 7 Social Science Growing up as Boys and Girls InText Questions and Answers

Page 45

Question 1. 
In what ways do the experiences of Samoan children and teenagers differ from your own experiences of growing up? Is there anything'in this experience that you wish was part of your growing up?
Answer: 
Samoan children

1. Children did not go to the school.
2. They learn many things such as how to take care of children or do household work from older children and from adults.
3. Young people learn to undertake long fishing expeditions.
4. Both boys and girls looked after their younger siblings.
5. At the age of 9, young boys join the older boys and learn outdoor jobs like fishing and planting coconuts.
6. At the age of 14, girls also go on fishing trips, work in the plantations, learn how to weave baskets. 

Indian Children and Teenagers:

1. Most of the children go to school and they learn various subjects in the school. Children from the upper and middle class families were given all the facilities without any gender differentiation.
2. But children belonging to poor families got less facilities as they had to take care of the house work and their younger siblings. Especially the girls do not go to school. The games and toys played by girls were also discriminated on the basis of gender.
3. Girls have lesser freedom like to choose their careers, to go outside the house with friends,etc. Yes, I wish that I could go on fishing trips, work in the plantations, learn how to weave baskets like the children of the Samoan Islands.

Question 2. 
Why do girls like to go to school together in groups?
Answer: 
The girls like to go to school together in groups because of the fear of being teased or attacked.

Page 46

Question 1. 
Make a drawing of a street or a park in your neighbourhood. Show the different kinds of activities young boys and girls may be engaged in. You could do this individually or in groups.
Answer: 
To be done by the students.

Question 2. 
Are there as many girls as boys in your drawing? Most probably you would have drawn fewer girls. Can you think of reasons why there are fewer women and girls in your neighbourhood streets, parks and markets in the late evenings or at night?
Answer: 
No, girls are less in number than boys. There are fewer women and girls out in the late evenings or at night because it is not considered safe for them and they are considered physically weak to protect themselves.

Question 3. 
Are girls and boys doing different activities? Can you think of reasons why this might be so? What would happen if you replaced the girls with the boys and vice-versa?
Answer: Yes, girls and boys are doing different activities. This is because the nature has made them different with different interests. The landscape will be changed completely.

Page 49

Question 1. 
Were Harmeet and Shonali correct in saying that Harmeet’s mother did not work?
Answer: 
No, they were not correct in saying that Harmeet’s mother did not work because her mother did all the household work and arranged the house properly. She remained occupied for the entire day in arranging for the various needs for her family, for example: preparing breakfast, morning tea, making children ready for the school and arranging the house, etc. When Harmeet’s mother stopped doing the work, the family found the entire house unorganised. Their mother saved a lot of money by doing most of the work on her own and tried to avoid wastage in cooking food, washing clothes, cleaning the house, etc. The household work is physically demanding as well as time consuming activity.

Question 2. 
What do you think would happen if your mother or those involved in doing the work at home went on a strike for a day?
Answer: 
If my mother goes on a strike for a day it will become difficult for me and my family to arrange the whole house systematically. This may result in 
disturbance and problems because me and my family, are not aware of and also not in practice of doing the daily household work in an organised way.

Question 3. 
Why do you think that men and boys generally do not do housework? Do you think they should?
Answer: 
Men and boys generally don’t do household work because our society has always perceived a different kind of role for them. Boys have always been taught to do the work outside home and have never been encouraged to do household work. Housework has always been considered the work to be done by the girls or women. According to me, they should do the work as the girls do because there are no specifications made for the division of work on the basis of gender anywhere. The male dominated society in India never allows males to do household work.

Page 50

Question 4.
What are the total number of work hours spent by women in Haryana and Tamil Nadu each week?
Answer:

Question 5.
How does this compare with the total number of working hours spent b i men?
Answer: 
Women spend maximum time of their working hours on household work while very little time was spent by men for household work whereas the differences between paid working hours of women and men have comparatively less difference.

Page 52

Question 1. 
What do you think this poster (Refer to image given on page 52 of textbook) is trying to say?
Answer: 
To be done by the students.

Question 2. 
This poster (Refer to image given on page 52 of textbook) was created by a women’s group in Bengal. Can you write an interesting slogan for the poster?
Answer: 
To be done by the students.
Hint: 
Slogan: “No matter our Job; No matter our Height; We all Deserve to be: Treated Right”; “Overworked: Underpaid”

RBSE Class 7 Social Science Growing up as Boys and Girls Textbook Questions and Answers

Question 1. 
Are the statements given below true or false? Support your answer with the use of an example.
(a) All societies do not think similarly about the roles that boys and girls play.
Answer: 
True, as in Samoan village girls and boys were doing similar kind of work, where as in Indian society, the work between boys and girls is divided.

(b) Our society does not make distinctions between boys and girls when they are growing up.
Answer: 
False, because since their childhood they are given different sets of toys to play with. Boys are given cars whereas girls Eire given dolls.

(c) Women who stay at home do not work.
Answer: 
False, as the household work is a continuous, hardworking and physically demanding job that requires lifting, bending and standing for long hours.

(d) The work that women do is less valued than that of men. 
Answer: 
True, as the household work done by women is always considered of less value and not paid for. It is assumed that this is something that comes naturally to women.

Question 2. 
Household is invisible and unpaid work. Household is physically demanding. Household is time consuming. Write in your own words what is meant by the terms ‘invisible’, ‘physically demanding’ and ‘time consuming’? Give one example of each based on the household tasks undertaken by women in your home.
Answer: 
(a) The term ‘invisible’ means that the work which is done by women at home is not noticed for example, for preparing food, cleaning, washing utensils, she devotes lots of time and works hard.

(b) The term ‘physically demanding’
means the work done at home is a laborious work which requires lots of physical efforts. It is tiring and hardworking and effects women’s health. 

(c) The term ‘time consuming’ means the work done by women at home consumes considerable amount of time.

Question 3. 
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?
Answer: 
Boys play with cars, ball, bat, swimming kit, bus, train, construction kits. Boys play kabaddi, hockey, golf, cricket, wrestling, rugby, volleyball, basketball, etc. Girls play with dolls, cooking set, teddies, soft toys. They play table tennis, kho-kho, badminton, swimming, etc.

There is a difference between the two lists because from the very beginning the boys and the girls have been brought up in the society where boys need to focus on developing physical strength and stamina. They are required to develop leadership skills from the growing age. Yes, it has a relationship to the roles children have to play as adults as during their childhood the nurturing that they get impacts their thinking and they perceive the society in the same way in which they are taught.

Question 4. 
If you have someone working as a domestic help in your house or locality talk to her and find out a little hit more about her life. Who are her family members? Where is her home? How many hours does she work? How much is she paid? Write a small story based on these details.
Answer: 
To be done by the students themselves.