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

Rajasthan Board RBSE Solutions for Class 7 Social Science  Civics Chapter 5 Women Change the World Works Textbook Exercise Questions and Answers.

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

RBSE Class 7 Social Science Women Change the World InText Questions and Answers

Page 55

Question 1. 
Who does what work?
Draw images of the following: A farmer, A factory worker, A nurse, A scientist, A pilot, A teacher. See what images your class drew by filling in the table. Add up the number of male and female images separately for each occupation.
Answer: 
To be done by the students.

Question 2. 
Are there more images of men than women?
Answer: 
Yes, there are more images of men than women in the activity.

Question 3. 
In what kinds of jobs were there more images of men than women?
Answer: 
There are more images of men in the jobs like farmer, factory worker, military and defence, scientist and pilot.

Question 4. 
Have all the nurses been drawn as females? Why?
Answer: 
Mostly the nurses had been drawn as females because females are considered as generous, caring,- compassionate and kind. These jobs are more suitable for them.

Question 5. 
Are there fewer images of female farmers? If so, why?
Answer: 
Yes, there are fewer images of female farmers because farming is a laborious activity which requires lots of physical work. Generally, women are not considered fit for doing laborious physical work. Although, they work in farms as labourers or helping hands.

Page 58

Read the story below and answer the questions- (Story on Page no. 58 of textbook) 

Question 1. 
If you were Xavier, what subject would you choose and why?
Answer: 
If I were Xavier, I would opt for history and languages. It is because I have interest in these subjects and my interest makes me to score well in these subjects.

Question 2. 
In your experience, what are some of other pressures that boys experience?
Answer:
The other pressures that boys may experience are as follows:
Finding a suitable job.

• To become financially independent.
• To get a good salary.
• To behave and maintain the ongoing trends of the society.
• To be strong and not to give up and not to cry in front of anyone.
• To be popular among people.
• To secure a stable position in the job.
• To have a well settled family.

Page 62

Question 1. 
What percentage of children leave school at the upper primary level?
Answer: 
4.03%.

Question 2. 
At which level of education do you see the highest percentage of children leaving?
Answer: 
Secondary level.

Question 3. 
Why do you think that percentage of Adivasi girls and boys leaving school is higher than that of any other group?
Answer: 
The percentage of Adivasi girls and boys leaving the school is higher than that of any other group because:

1. In the rural and remote areas, no proper schools and teachers are present who can teach on regular basis.
2. The schools are not close to home, therefore, the parents are not willing to send girls to school because of lack of transportation facilities like buses or vans.
3. Poor families are unable to bear the cost of educating all their children. Therefore they prefer to provide education to boys only.
4. Many times children are discriminated against by the teachers and classmates.

RBSE Class 7 Social Science Women Change the World Textbook Questions and Answers

Question 1. 
How do you think stereotypes, about women can or cannot do, affect women’s right to equality?
Answer: 
Because of being stereotype, women are often considered as weak or incapable of doing labour work or technical work. It is generally thought that women cannot think technically, so the positions like scientists,.computer programmers are not for them. They are not given preference in these job and are considered for teaching and nursing jobs only. They also get less salaries in comparison to men.

Question 2. 
List one reason why learning the alphabet was so important to women like Rashsundari Devi, Ramabai and Rokeya.
Answer: 
Learning the alphabet was so important to the women because only after learning, they are able to read and write stories, autobiographies and share their views and experiences of inequality with the society. In this way only, they could inspire many other women to fight all odds to educate themselves.

Question 3.
Poor girls drop out of school because they are not interested in getting an education”. Re-read the last paragraph on Page 62 (textbook) and explain why this statement is not true.
Answer: 
Poor girls drop out of school not because they are not interested in getting education but because they do not get enough facilities which are required to get education. Example:

1. Unavailability of proper schools in rural areas.
2. Lack of teachers. 
3. Schools are far away from their homes.
4. Parents could not afford the transportation cost.
5. Parents could not effort the cost of educating all their children, so they provide education to boys only.

Question 4. 
Can you describe two methods of struggle that the women’s movement used to raise issues? If you had to organise a struggle against stereotypes, about what women can or cannot do, what method would you employ from the ones that you have read about? Why would you choose this particular method? 
Answer: 
The various methods are as follows:
(i) Campaigning: 
Campaigns to fight discrimination and violence against women are an important part of the women’s movement. Campaigns have also led to new laws being passed. A new law was made in 2006 to give legal protection to those women who face physical and mental violences within their homes. Similarly, guidlines were made to protect women against sexual harassment at the workplace in 1997.

(ii) Raising awareness: 
To raise awareness through demonstrations, candle march and rallies in order to make people aware about women’s rights and issues.
If I had to organise a struggle against stereotypes about what women can or cannot do, I would employ the method of raising awareness through various articles, advertisements, demonstrations and talks. This method would provide knowledge to the people about how they can protest against the injustice. This would provide guidance to the people regarding the various legal measures that can be taken to figh