Growing up as Boys and Girls - Chapter Wise CBSE Solved Question and Answer Based On NCERT
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Q1: Define the terms: a. Double burden b. care-giving
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a. Double burden means extra or double load. This term is commonly used to describe women’s work situation as they work both inside and outside home.
b. A wide range of task including looking after and nurturing refers to care giving task. For details refer section A answer no 12.
Q2: Work done by a housewife is devalued. Explain why?
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Work done by a housewife is invisible and unpaid work. In our society it is believed that only paid works are true works and are valuable. Thus housework’s are devalued
Q3: Make a list of toys and games typically played by boys and girls.
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Individual answer.
Q4: Interact with a domestic worker of your family or surrounding, and answer the following
Who are her family members?
Where does she lives?
How many hours does she works?
How much does she gets paid?
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Q5: Jaya is a domestic worker. She works from early morning till night inside the house. Sometimes she goes outside also to buy bread, vegetables and eggs. But in lieu of her hard work her memsahib does not offer her proper and adequate quantity of food. Do you think this is right? Give two reasons to support your answer.
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Individual answer
Q6: Why do you think that men and boys generally do not do household work? Do you think they should do household work? Give a reason for your answer.
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Individual answer
Q7: Sita her cousin brother Rakesh are twelve years old. Sita is not allowed to stay in playground after 6 pm while her brother Rajesh play till 7 pm in the same playground. Explain the reason for this inequality between Sita and Rakesh.
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The reason for this inequality is sita is a girl while rakesh is a boy. In our society still girls and boys are distinct. Because of different ways of growing and sick mentality of boys of being superior, girls carried fear of being teased or attacked. Thus in order to stay safe they are not allowed to stay outside after evening.
Q8: How a boy’s school differ from a girl’s school?
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In a boys school generally there is no courtyard, and they play in playground attached to the school. While in a girl’s school there is a central courtyard where girls used to play.
In a boy’s school most of the teachers are male while in a girl’s school most of the teachers are females.
Q9: Make a list of all the works done by male members of your family and female members of your family. Analyse who works more, and whose work is difficult for you?
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Individual answer.
Q10: Why we should value housework?
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House work is very important. It is equally valuable as other outside works, but this kind of work is often invisible and is not paid. Thus we should value household work.
