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NCERT Political Science⟋Civics Class 7 Chapter 4 Growing up as Boys and Girls Part 1
Q-1 Are the Statements given alongside true or false? Support your answer with the use of an example-
- All societies do not think similarly about the roles that boys and girls play.
- Our society does not make distinctions between boys and girls when they are growing up.
- Women who stay at home do not work.
- The work that women do is less valued than that of men.
Answer:
(a) True.
- In most societies, the roles men and women play or the work they do are not valued equally.
- They do not have the same status.
- It is supposed that household works must be done by women while men do the office work.
- (b) False.
- The distinctions between boys and girls begins from a very young age.
- For example, both of them given different toys to play with.
- Boys are usually given cars to play with and girl՚s dolls.
- Additionally, they were told how girls must dress, what games boys should play, how girl՚s need to talk softly or boys need to be tough.
- (c) False.
- The responsibility of housework i.e.. looking after children, cooking, washing clothes, cleaning, looking after etc.
- Bear a lot of pressure and Hardwork.
- Even after that, this is not recognized as work and presumed as natural work of women.
- While women work right from morning to the night in household duties.
- (d) True.
- A men get paid for what they are doing in the offices and earns the livelihood while a woman who is working from morning to night in household duties are not paid for.
- The household work is considered as natural duty of a woman and thus is less valued than that of men.
Q-2 Housework is invisible and unpaid work. Housework is physically demanding. Housework is time consuming.
Write in your own words what is meant by the terms ‘invisible’ , ‘physically demanding’ , and ‘time consuming’ ? Given one example of each based on the household tasks undertaken by women in your home.
Answer:
Invisible:
It is a work which is noticed only when it is not done.
- In other words, if household work like cleaning, organizing things etc. is not done properly, the house looks as if it has been hit by a hurricane.
- It is expected that the house should be clean at all times, however, women have to put in great effort to maintain the cleanliness.
- Physically Demanding:
- It requires a lot of effort to do household work.
- Work like sweeping, mopping, washing clothes etc. is very strenuous.
- Time Consuming:
- Household work takes up a lot of time of women.
- It hence leaves them with very less time for leisure.
- Cleaning the house, attending to children etc. are non-stop tasks.