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AUD2E03 | GENDER STUDIES

 1) ----- is a term that refers to social or cultural

distinctions associated with being male or female.

a)Identity (Ans)

b) Sex

c) Gender

d) Personality

 2) When Did Gender Development Studies Starts

a)1970s (Ans)

b) 1980s

c) 1960s

d) 1950s

 3) Who Coined the term Gender

a)Simone de Beauvoir

b) Mary Wollstonecraft

c) John Money (Ans)

d) Mary Shelley

 4) ---- differentiate Masculine and Feminine

a)Sex

b) patriarchy
 c) Gender (Ans)

d) State

 5) Equality before law and equal protection of law

a)Article 14 (Ans)

b) Article15

c) Article 32

d) Article 21

 6) ----- is the personal sense of one's own gender

a)Gender Quality

b) Gender appearance

c) Gender Identity (Ans)

d) Personality

 7) ----- People have a gender identity or gender

expression that differs from the sex that they were
assigned at birth.

a)Women

b) Criminals

c) Men

d) Transgender (Ans)

 8) A woman who has a romantic and/or sexual

orientation toward women is Called

a)Gay

b) Lesbian (Ans)

c) Transgender

d) Queer

 9) ---- Used in some cultural settings to represent men

who are attracted to men in a romantic, erotic and/or
emotional sense
 a)Gay (Ans)

b) Bisexual

c) Lesbian

d) Transgender

 10) A person who experiences sexual, romantic, physical,

and/or spiritual attraction to more than one gender, not
necessarily at the same time, in the same way, or to the
same degree

a)Gay

b) Bisexual (Ans)

c) Queer

d) Sexual sadist

 11) ---- is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles

generally associated with women and girls

a)Gender Bias

b) gender Roles

c) Feminity (Ans)

d) Gender Attribution

 12) Qualities or attributes regarded as characteristic of

men is called

a)Gender Roles

b) Gender Attribution

c) Gender socialization

d) masculinity (Ans)

 13) ---- can be defined as the behaviors, values, and

attitudes that a society considers appropriate for both
male and female.

a)Gender Roles (Ans)

b) Gender Socialization
 c) Gender construction

d) gender discrimination

 14) New Economic Policy of India was launched in the

year ----- under the leadership of P. V. Narasimha Rao
government

a)1993

b)1991 (Ans)

c)2000

d)1990

 15) New Economic Policy of India was launched in the

year 1991 under the leadership of ------ government

a)H. D. Deve Gowda

b) Atal Bihari Vajpayee

c) P. V. Narasimha Rao (Ans)

d) Chandra Shekhar

 16) Equal Remuneration Act provides that

(i) Women and men will be paid equally for doing the
same work
(ii) There will be no discrimination against women at the
time of recruitment.
(iii) The employer is bound to maintain a register of the
workers.
(iv)There will be no discrimination against women
workers in any condition of service like promotion,
training or transfer. Codes:

a)A) (i); (ii); (iii) and (iv) (Ans)

b) (B) (i) and (ii) only

c) (C) (ii) and (iii) only

d) (D) (i) and (iv) only

 17) Narmada Bachao Andolan also was known as NBA is

a social movement formed by activist ------
 a)Medha Patkar (Ans)

b) Vandana Shiva

c) Daya Bai

d) Arundhati Roy

 18) Who Authored the Book the A Vindication of the

Rights of Woman?

a)Kate Millett

b) Betty Friedan

c) Virginia Woolf

d) Mary Wollstonecraft (Ans)

 19) Dowry Prohibition Act enacted in ----

a)1829

b)1990

c)1850

d)1961 (Ans)

 20) The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act,

a)1974

b)1971 (Ans)

c)1973

d)1972

 21) Prohibition of Child Marriage Act ----

a)2016 (Ans)

b)1951

c)1970

d)1928

 22) Domestic Violence Act was passed in ----

a)2006
 b)2000

c)2005 (Ans)

d)2007

 23) "----------- is an abuse of power. It is the

domination, coercion, intimidation and victimization of
one person by another by physical, sexual or emotional
means within intimate relationships."

a)Domestic violence (Ans)

b) Sexual harassment

c) Violence

d) Rape

 24) --------as visual portrayals of acts of physical

aggression by one human or human-like character
against another

a)Grape vine

b) Gossip

c) Media Violence (Ans)

d) Media Culture

 25) The ----is the ratio of males to females in a

population

a)Sex ratio (Ans)

b) Depended ratio

c) imbalanced Population

d) Population pyramid

 26) ----- is any form of unwelcome sexual behaviour

that?s offensive, humiliating or intimidating

a)Sexual harassment (Ans)

b) immoral Trafficking

c) Physical Harassment
 d) Rape

 27) ---- the act or practice of engaging in promiscuous

sexual relations especially for money

a)Prostitution (Ans)

b) Sexual harassment

c) media Violence

d) Emotional abuse

 28) ----is travel to a different locale for the sake of

sexual activity, particularly with prostitutes

a)Sex tourism (Ans)

b) Prostitution

c) violence

d) Regional politics

 29) First female President of India ----

a)Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi

b) Pratibha Patil (Ans)

c) Fatima Sheikh

d) Savitribai Phule

 30) First woman with close Indian ties to get the 1979
Nobel Peace Prize

a)Fatima Sheikh

b) Mother Teresa (Ans)

c) Marie Curie

d) Sarojini Naidu

 31) ----- the first woman appointed chief economist of

the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

a)Sonal Varma

b) Devaki Jain
 c) Gita Gopinath (Ans)

d) Jayati Ghosh

 32) ---- was the first Women Judge in Supreme Court?

a)Sujata Manohar

b) Ruma Pal

c) Gyan Sudha Misra

d) Fathima Beevi (Ans)

 33) According to Census 2011, ----- has the highest

female literacy rate

a)Maharashtra

b) Karnataka

c) Gujarat

d) Kerala (Ans)

 34) According to Census 2011, ----- has the lowest

female literacy rate

a)Uttar Pradesh

b) Madhya Pradesh

c) Bihar (Ans)

d) Himachal Pradesh

 35) Which State with Highest Female Sex Ratio in India

a)Karnataka

b) Gujarat

c) Maharashtra

d) Kerala (Ans)

 36) Which State with Lowest Female Sex Ratio in India

a)Andhra Pradesh

b) Haryana

c) Arunachal Pradesh
 d) Chandigarh (Ans)

 37) The state in India with the highest number of

infanticide cases reported was -----

a)Madhya Pradesh

b) Uttar Pradesh (Ans)

c) Haryana

d) Tamil Nadu

 38) Which State has the highest female Feticides

a)Gujrat

b) Goa

c) Maharashtra (Ans)

d) Panjab

 39) Who was the earliest Indian feminist leader

a)Savitribai Phule (Ans)

b) Fatima Sheikh

c) Tarabai Shinde

d) Ramabai Ranade

 40) ----- was the country?s first female teacher

a)Dr. Vina Mazumdar

b) Sharmila Rege

c) Ramabai Ranade

d) Savitribai Phule (Ans)

 41) The Second World Conference on Women took place

-----

a)Copenhagen (Ans)

b) Nairobi

c) Beijing
 d) Mexico

 42) Second World Conference on Women were

conducted in

a)1980 (Ans)

b)1960

c)2000

d)2010

 43) The Abuses such as hitting, punching, strangling,

restraining, pushing and slapping includes in

a)Verbal abuse

b) Sexual abuse

c) Emotional abuse

d) Physical abuse (Ans)

 44) ----- Act to provide for the termination of certain

pregnancies by registered Medical Practitioners and for
matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

a)MTP (Ans)

b) Immoral Traffic

c) NCW

d) Women from Domestic Violence

 45) Who is the founder of RFSTN

a)Vandana Shiva (Ans)

b) Anita Dube

c) Aqui Thami

d) Arunima Bose

 46) ----- is the partial or total removal of external

female genitalia or other injury to the female genital
organs for non-medical reasons

a)Female genital mutilation (Ans)

 b) Sexual Abuse

c) Sexual Sadism

d) Sexual harassment

 47) Who started International Women?s day?

a)WHO

b) Socialist Party United States (Ans)

c) Feminist Leaders

d) UN

 48) International Women's Day begins in

a)1909 (Ans)

b)1990

c)1930

d)1946

 49) International Women?s day celebrated on -----

a)Mar-08 (Ans)

b) September 8

c) January 8

d) December 8

 50) ---- is the ending of a pregnancy by removal or

expulsion of an embryo or fetus

a)Abortion (Ans)

b) Mercy Killing

c) Infanticide

d) foeticide

 51) ---- is the intentional killing of infants

a)Infanticide (Ans)

b) Abortion
 c) foeticide

d) fetal death

 52) Who authors the book ?The Second Sex??

a)Simone de Beauvoir (Ans)

b) Betty Friedan

c) Kate Millett

d) Ver?nica Gerber Bicecci

 53) ----- in society means how we're expected to act,

speak, dress, groom, and conduct ourselves based upon
our assigned sex

a)Gender roles (Ans)

b) Gender Behaviour

c) gender Socialization

d) gender difference

 54) ---- refers to the anatomical and other biological

differences between females and males

a)Gender

b) Ethnic deference

c) Sex (Ans)

d) psyche

 55) The genitalia and genetic differences between

males and females refed as -----

a)Ethnicity

b) Race

c) Gender

d) Sex (Ans)

 56) Gender identity is defined as a personal conception

of oneself as male or female
 a)Identity

b) Personality

c) gender Roles

d) Gender Identity (Ans)

 57) Gender expression is how a person outwardly shows

their gender identity.

a)Identity

b) Personality

c) gender Roles

d) Gender Identity (Ans)

 58) ----- is the personal sense of one's own gender.

a)Gender identity (Ans)

b) Gender Roles

c) Gender sensitivity

d) Gender socialization

 59) First Gender studies Department in India

a)Delhi University

b) Madras University

c) Bombay University (Ans)

d) Pune University

 60) Choose the right one. Why Women studies in India?

a)a) Cultural and social construction of gender (Ans)

b) (b) fundamental right of every female citizen

c) (c) Achieve the authority in household activities

d) (d) To become a earning member in Society

 61) First officially approved gender studies academic

Programme in

a)UK
 b) United States (Ans)

c) Germany

d) France

 62) --- is the process through which children learn

about the social expectations, attitudes and behaviors
typically associated with boys and girls.

a)Gender Sensitivity

b) Gender Expectation

c) Gender Status

d) Gender socialization (Ans)

 63) ------ examines the connections between women

and nature

a)Green Army

b) Bio-diversity

c) Eco-feminism (Ans)

d) Chipko Movement

 64) ------ was a forest conservation movement led by

women in India

a)Stand Up Protest

b) Chipko movement (Ans)

c) Narmada Andolan

d) Jungle Bachao Andolan

 65) ---- is best remembered for the collective

mobilization of women for the cause of preserving
forests

a)Anti-Arrack Movement

b) Acid Attack Movement

c) Chipko movement (Ans)

d) Stand Up Protest
 66) The Anti-Arrack Movement was initiated by ------
in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh in 1992.

a)Medha Patkar

b) Vardheneni Rosamma (Ans)

c) Gaura Devi

d) Laxmi Aggarwal

 67) Chhanv foundation stands for

a)Unwedded Mothers

b) acid attack survivors (Ans)

c) Lesbians

d) Physically handicapped Women)

 68) Who is the director of Chhanv Foundation

a)Irom Sharmila

b) Vardheneni Rosamma

c) Laxmi Aggarwal (Ans)

d) Gaura Devi

 69) The Ethics of Ambiguity written by?

a)Wendy L. Brown

b) Simone de Beauvoir (Ans)

c) Judith Pamela Butler

d) Saba Mahmood

 70) Write the name of the youngest Nobel Prize laureate

a)Sanna Marin

b) Jacinda Ardern

c) Benazir Bhutto

d) Malala Yousafzai (Ans)

 71) ------ first woman to head a democratic
government in a Muslim majority nation

a)Malala Yousafzai

b) Asma Barlas

c) Benazir Bhutto (Ans)

d) Zeenuth Futehally

 72) Who was the first woman of Indian origin to go to

space?

a)Kalpana Chawla (Ans)

b) Svetlana Savitskaya

c) Judith Resnik

d) Valentina Tereshkov

 73) The first wave of feminism took place in-----

a)1820-1830

b) 1848 to 1920 (Ans)

c) 1930-1950

d) 1945-1964

 74) When the feminist theory did Begins?

a)1950s

b) 1960s

c) 1970s (Ans)

d) 1980s

 75) Who is the founder of Feminism?

a)Charles Fourier (Ans)

b) Mary Wollstonecraft

c) Lucretia Mott

d) Susan B. Anthony

 76) The term Feminism was coined in ----

 a)1830

b)1837 (Ans)

c)1847

d)1843

 77) Who is called a feminist?

a)who supports equal rights for women (Ans)

b) Who support equal opportunity for humanity

c) Who support Economic freedom

d)Who fight for liberation

 78) ---- is called mainstream feminism

a)Marxist Feminism

b) Radical Feminism

c) Socialist Feminism

d) Liberal Feminism (Ans)

 79) ----- focus on achieving gender equality through

political and legal reform within the framework of liberal
democracy

a)Amazon Feminism

b) Cultural Feminism

c) Liberal Feminism (Ans)

d) Socialist Feminism

 80) Who among them is associated with Liberal

Feminism?

a)John Stuart Mill (Ans)

b) Simone de Beauvoir

c) Patricia Hill Collins

d) Audre Lorde

 81) When the Socialist feminism did Begins?

 a)1980-90s

b) 1970-80s

c) 1960-70s (Ans)

d) 1950-60s

 82) Which feminist ideology focus the role of capitalism

in the oppression of women?

a)Marxist feminism

b) Socialist Feminism (Ans)

c) Post-modern feminism

d) Lipstick Feminism

 83) The Second Wave of feminism demarcated from the

1960s to the late 1980s.

a)1920-1930s

b) 1930-1940s

c) 1950-1960s

d) 1960-1980s (Ans)

 84) Who led the Second wave Feminism?

a)Annie Zaidi

b) Betty Friedan (Ans)

c) Elizabeth Stanton

d) Germaine Greer

 85) The Feminine Mystique written by----?

a)Betty Friedan (Ans)

b) Kate Millett

c) Miguel Ruiz

d) Simone de Beauvoir

 86) The slogan, ?The Personal is Political,? is associated

with---- Feminism
 a)First Wave

b) Second Wave (Ans)

c) Cultural

d) Social

 87) Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prohibited discrimination

in employment on the basis of ----

a)Sex

b) Colour

c) Gender (Ans)

d) Education

 88) The third wave of feminism emerged in the ------

a)Mid-1980s

b) mid-1970s

c) mid-1990s (Ans)

d) mid-1960s

 89) ------- theory analyses the structures of power

which oppress the female sex

a)Marxist Feminist

b) Socialist feminist

c) Radical Feminist (Ans)

d) Modern Feminist

 90) Who among them is associated with Radical

Feminist thoughts?

a)Shulamith Firestone (Ans)

b) Sarojini Naidu

c) Karen Horney

d) Catharine MacKinnon
 91) ------ is a social system in which men hold primary
power and predominate in roles of political leadership,
moral authority, social privilege and control of property.

a)Hegemony

b) Authority

c) bureaucracy

d) Patriarchy (Ans)

 92) ------ analyzes the ways in which women are

exploited through capitalism and the individual
ownership of private property

a)Socialist Feminism

b) Marxist Feminism (Ans)

c) Radical Feminism

d) Egalitarianism

 93) -----is a variety of third-wave feminism that seeks

to embrace traditional concepts of femininity, including
the sexual power of women, alongside feminist ideas

a)Amazon Feminism

b) Lipstick Feminism (Ans)

c) Cultural Feminism

d) Eco-Feminism

 94) ---- emphasizes female physical prowess as a

means to achieve the goal of gender equality

a)Amazon Feminism (Ans)

b) Lipstick Feminism

c) Socialist Feminism

d) Cultural Feminism

 95) ----- is prejudice or discrimination based on a

person's sex or gender
 a)Feminism

b) Sexism (Ans)

c) Gender

d) Racism

 96) Reformist Feminism is also known as ------

a)Radical feminism

b) Socialist Feminism

c) Liberal Feminism (Ans)

d) Modern Feminism

 97) -------, the view that there is a "female nature" or

"female essence", attempts to revalue and redefine
attributes ascribed to femaleness

a)Modern Feminism

b) Eco-Feminism

c) Cultural Feminism (Ans)

d) Amazon Feminism

 98) ----- emphasizes the difference between women

and men but considers that difference to be
psychological, and to be culturally constructed rather
than biologically innate.

a)Eco-Feminism

b) Modern Feminism

c) Cultural Feminism (Ans)

d) Socialist Feminism

 99) ------ is an unjust social system that is harmful to

both men and women

a)Racism

b) Sexism

c) Patriarchy (Ans)
 d) Division of Labour

 100) 'Speculum of the Other Woman' written by------

a)Luce Irigaray (Ans)

b) Friedrich Engels

c) Ewa P?onowska Ziarek

d) Tina Chanter

 101) 'Ethics of Sexual Difference' authored by-----

a)Tina Chanter

b) Kelly Oliver

c) Julia Kristeva

d) Luce Irigaray (Ans)

 102) 'Women & Power: A Manifesto' written by-----

a)Mary Beard (Ans)

b) Julia Kristeva

c) H?l?ne Cixous

d) Catherine Cl?ment

 103) The Third World Conference on Women took place

in------

a)Nairobi (Ans)

b) Beijing

c) Mexico

d) Copenhagen

 104) The Third Women World Conference on -----

a)1980

b)1992

c)1985 (Ans)

d)1990
 105) The Fourth World Conference on Women took place
in------

a)Nairobi

b) Beijing (Ans)

c) Mexico

d) Copenhagen

 106) The Fourth Women World Conference on -----

a)1980

b)1995 (Ans)

c)1985

d)1990

 107) Who is the Managing director, Apollo Hospitals

Enterprise?

a)Vinita D. Gupta

b) Brij Sharma

c) Suneeta Reddy (Ans)

d) Dr. Preetha Reddy

 108) Who is the Chairman and MD, Tractors and Farm

Equipment?

a)Roshni Nadar

b) Kiran Shiv Nadar

c) Mallika Srinivasan (Ans)

d) Lakshmi Venu

 109) Who was the first women Politician in India?

a)Sucheta Kripalani (Ans)

b) Indira Gandhi

c) V. S. Ramadevi

d) Supriya Sule
 110) Who was the first female Cabinet Minister in India?

a)Indira Gandhi

b) Frances Perkins (Ans)

c) Amrit Kaur

d) Sucheta Kripalani

 111) ----- Known as the Iron lady of India

a)Indira Gandhi (Ans)

b) Amrit Kaur

c) Pratibha Devisingh Patil

d) Meira Kumar

 112) ----- is known as the 'Reluctant Politician in India?

a)Vasundhara Raje

b) Mayawati Das

c) Sushma Swaraj

d) Sonia Gandhi (Ans)

 113) Which political leader is popularly known as didi?

a)Sushma Swaraj

b) Mayawati Das

c) Mamata Banerjee (Ans)

d) Vasundhara Raje

 114) Who is known as the 'Nightingale of India'?

a) Sarojini Naidu (Ans)

b) Kishori Ravindra Amonkar

c) Usha Mangeshkar

d) Asha Bhosle

 115) Who is the most respected female playback singer

in India?
 a)Lata Mangeshkar (Ans)

b) M S Subbulakshmi

c) Rita Ganguly

d) DK Pattammal

 116) Who was the first woman vice-chancellor in history?

a)Louise Richardson (Ans)

b) Clara Barton

c) Emma Willard

d) Maria Montessori)

 117) Who is the first woman sportsperson to be decorated

with the Padma Vibhushan?

a)M.C. Mary Kom (Ans)

b) Laishram Sarita Devi

c) Nikhat Zareen

d) Pinki Rani Jangra

 118) Who is the first Indian badminton player to win an

Olympic medal?

a)Carolina Maria Marin

b) Saina Nehwal (Ans)

c) Jwala Gutta

d) Aya Ohori

 119) Who is the first Indian woman boxer?

a)Manju Rani (Ans)

b) M.C. Mary Kom

c) Nikhat Zareen

d) Laishram Sarita Devi

 120) Who is the first women IPS in India

a)Kiran Bedi (Ans)

 b) Archana Ramasundaram

c) Meera Borwankar

d) Sonia Narang

 121) -----the first Indian female physician in the year

1887

a)Anandibai Joshi (Ans)

b) Rukhmabai

c) Neelam Kler

d) Indira Hinduja

 122) Who was first Indian woman to ride a motorbike

from Kanyakumari to Kashmir?

a)Shila Dawre

b) Arunima Sinha

c) Roshini Sharma (Ans)

d) Arati Saha

 123) ----is the first female amputee to climb Mount

Everest

a)Arunima Sinha (Ans)

b) Mithali Raj

c) Anjali Gupta

d) Sarla Thakral

 124) Who is known as "Woman of the Millennium"?

a)Pratibha Patil

b) Indira Gandhi (Ans)

c) Kalpana Chawla

d) Kiran Bedi

 125) The fourth world conferences on took place in -----

a)Beijing (Ans)
 b) Nairobi

c) Copenhagen

d) Mexico

 126) The first world conference on women took place in

the year----?

a)1960

b)1945

c)1975 (Ans)

d)1980

 127) Article---- prohibits discrimination against any

citizen on the ground of sex.

a)Article 16

b) Article 15 (Ans)

c) Article 17

d) Article 18

 128) ------the Kerala State Poverty Eradication Mission

inaugurated by the Prime Minister, Shri Atal Bihari
Vajpayee

a)SHG

b) Kudumbashree (Ans)

c) One stop center

d) Ujjawala

 129) The aim behind the establishment of

Kudumbashree mission is ----

a)Poverty eradication (Ans)

b) Self-employment

c) Local participation

d) Economic Empowerment
 130) When did Kudumbashree started in Kerala?

a)17-May-99

b) 17 May 1997

c) 17 May 1998 (Ans)

d) 17 May 1996

 131) Kudumbasree was launched in?

a)Trivandrum

b) Calicut

c) Kollam

d) Malappuram (Ans)

 132) The Chairman of the governing body of

Kudumbashree?

a)Chief Minister

b) Local self-government Minister (Ans)

c) Public affairs officer

d) Vanitha commission

 133) The largest women movement in Asia?

a)PinjraTod

b) The Gulabi Gang

c) SEWA

d) Kudumbashree (Ans)

 134) Children's Neighbourhood Groups?

a)Balasabha (Ans)

b) Aganwadi

c) Day care center

d) Nursery

 135) Name the online platform launched by the Ministry

of Women and Child Development to support women
 entrepreneurs?

a)Digital India

b) Mahila E-haat (Ans)

c) One Stop Centre Scheme

d) None of this

 136) Women Helpline Scheme was launched in...

a)2015 (Ans)

b)2011

c)2000

d)2001

 137) Which of the following scheme provide education to

girls and their welfare?

a)UJJAWALA

b) SWADHAR Scheme

c) Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (Ans)

d) One Stop Centre Scheme

 138) Support to Training and Employment Programme

for Women scheme is....

a)SWADHAR

b) STEP (Ans)

c) Nari Shakti Puraskar

d) RMK

 139) National Mission for Empowerment of Women was

launched on:

a)15-Aug-2010

b)15-Aug-2011 (Ans)

c)15-Aug-2012

d)15-Aug-2013
 140) Which scheme promotes community participation
through involvement of Students Volunteers for
empowerment of rural women?

a)NAND-GHAR YOJANA

b) eSamvad Portal

c) Pradhan Mantri Mahila Shakti Kendra scheme (Ans)

d) She-Box Portal

 141) Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana was launched

in...

a)2008

b)2010 (Ans)

c)2011

d)2007

 142) -----is an initiative for meeting aspirations and

needs of women entrepreneurs

a)Mahila E-Haat (Ans)

b) eSamvad Portal

c) She-Box Portal

d) NAND-GHAR YOJANA

 143) -----Scheme for Prevention of trafficking and

Rescue, Rehabilitation and Re-integration of Victims of
Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation

a)Women Helpline Scheme

b) UJJAWALA (Ans)

c) One Stop Centre

d) She-Box Portal

 144) -----is a women Empowerment and Livelihoods

Programme in the Mid Gangetic Plains

a)UJJAWALA
 b) Priyadarshini (Ans)

c) Kudumbashree

d) SEWA

 145) -------is also known as the National Credit Fund

for Women

a)CSWB

b) DWCRA

c) RMK (Ans)

d) STEP

 146) ------aim?s to improve the socio-economic status

of the poor women in rural areas

a)DWCRA (Ans)

b) RMK

c) DWCRA

d) STEP

 147) Who is the best-selling female author of all time?

a)Agatha Christie (Ans)

b) Toni Morrison

c) Willa Cather

d) Beverly Cleary

 148) Who was the first women to win the best director?

a)Kathryn Ann Bigelow (Ans)

b) Sofia Carmina

c) Greta Celeste Gerwig

d) Lina Wertm?ller

 149) Who was the first women to win Barat Ratna?

a)Mother Teresa

b) Indira Gandhi (Ans)

 c) M. S Subhalakshmi

d) Lata Mangeshkar

 150) Who was the first women win the Rajiv Gandhi Khel
Ratna award?

a)Sakshi Malik

b) Karnam Malleswari (Ans)

c) Anjali Bhagwat

d) Deepa Malik

 151) Who was the first women win Padma Shri?

a)Achamma Mathai

b) Bembem Devi (Ans)

c) Machani Somappa

d) Surya Kumar Bhuyan

 152) ?How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single

moment before starting to improve the world.? This
famous quote by ------

a)Jane Austen

b) Anne Frank (Ans)

c) Queen Elizabeth

d) Catherine the Great

 153) ?I tell my story not because it is unique, but because

it is the story of many girls.? Said by-----

a)Anne Frank

b) Malala Yousafzai (Ans)

c) Marie Curie

d) Queen Elizabeth

 154) "Women are very desirous of their being placed on

absolutely equal terms with men. We ask for neither
more nor less than that.? By ----
 a)Malala Yousafzai

b) Edith Cowan (Ans)

c) Amelia Earhart

d) Jane Austen

 155) Who is known as ?The Virgin Queen? because she

chose to marry her country instead of a man?

a)Queen Elizabeth I (Ans)

b) Catherine the Great

c) Maya Angelou

d) Queen Elizabeth II

 156) Who coined the term radioactivity?

a)Marie Curie (Ans)

b) Lise Meitner

c) Charlotta Fr?lich

d) Nikola Tesla

 157) -------was an English mathematician and the

world?s first computer programmer

a)Lise Meitner

b) Ada Lovelace (Ans)

c) Nikola Tesla

d) Maya Angelou

 158) What is the female Literacy rate in India?

a)60.8

b)65.5 (Ans)

c)70.1

d)75.4

 159) Which State has highest female Literacy rate in

India?
 a)Mizoram

b) Kerala (Ans)

c) Rajasthan

d) Panjab

 160) Which State has lowest female Literacy rate in

India?

a)Rajasthan (Ans)

b) Uttar Pradesh

c) Tamil Nadu

d) Madhya Pradesh

 161) Which Country has highest female Literacy rate?

a)San Marino (Ans)

b) Britten

c) Ireland

d) France

 162) Which Country has lowest female Literacy rate?

a)Afghanistan (Ans)

b) Ethiopia

c) Benin

d) Pakistan

 163) Female literacy rate of Kerala is-----

a)99.5%

b)96.2% (Ans)

c)91.4%

d)90.2%

 164) What is the Global Female Literacy rate?

a)90.8
 b)60.4

c)82.7 (Ans)

d)57.3

 165) ?Pragati Scholarship? an Educational support to Girl

Child to pursue technical education has been launched
by-----

a)UGC

b) MHRD (Ans)

c) NIRF

d) Govt.of India

 166) Fair and Lovely Scholarship promote and

encourage-------

a)Undergraduate Education

b) Small scale business

c) Career Foundation (Ans)

d) Fashion Designing

 167) CBSE merit scholarship scheme for-----

a)Academic excellence

b) Aeronautics Research

c) Minority communities

d) Single Girl Students (Ans)

 168) The first female vice president of United States?

a)Karen Sue Pence

b) Kamala Devi Harris (Ans)

c) Hillary Clinton

d) Jill Tracy Biden

 169) Who was the first women athlete to represent India

in the Olympics?
 a)P. T. Usha

b) Nilima Ghose (Ans)

c) Anju Bobby George

d) Heena Sidhu

 170) The ----- Constitutional Amendment Act mandates

33.3% reservation for women in Panchayati Raj
Institutions across the country.

a) 74th

b) 73rd (Ans)

c) 72nd

d) 71st

 171) -------is the tendency to prefer one gender over

another.

a)Gender discrimination

b) Gender bias (Ans)

c) Gender Inequality

d) Gender Difference

 172) -------was enacted to remove gender

discriminatory provisions in the Hindu Succession Act,
1956.

a)Hindu Succession Act 2005 (Ans)

b) Hindu succession act 2018

c) Hindu succession act 2006

d) Hindu succession act 2003

 173) Who was the first journalist interviewed LTTE chief V.

Prabhakaran?

a)Anita Pratap (Ans)

b) Gauri Lankesh

c) Shaili Chopra
 d) Sweta Singh

 174) A --------- is a financial intermediary committee

usually composed of 10 to 20 local Members

a)NGO

b) Association

c) self-help group (Ans)

d) Organization

 175) -------is a founder of Leanin.org and the chief

operating officer of Facebook.

a)Sara Blakely

b) Shery Kara Sandberg (Ans)

c) Oprah Winfrey

d) Denise Coates

 176) Who is the founder Nykaa?

a)Farah Nathani Menzies

b) Falguni Nayar (Ans)

c) Isha Choudhry

d) Khushboo Jain

 177) What City has most the Transgender?

a)Paris

b) New York City (Ans)

c) Tokyo

d) Moscow

 178) -----is an act of the Parliament of India with the

objective to provide for protection of rights of
transgender people, their welfare, and other related
matters.

a)The Transgender Persons Act 2018

 b) The Transgender Persons Act 2019 (Ans)

c)The Transgender Persons Act 2017

d)The Transgender Persons Act 2016

 179) Transgender Welfare Equity and Empowerment

Trust aims-----

a)The welfare of trans persons

b)The education of trans persons

c)The legal standing of trans persons

d)All the above (Ans)

 180) Who is the first chairman of the National

commission for women?

a)Jayanti Patnaik (Ans)

b) Rekha Sharma

c) Sugatha Kumari

d) M. C. Josephine

 181) Who is Kerala Vanitha Commission Chairperson?

a)Adv. Tara M S

b) Usha Rani P

c) M. C. Josephine (Ans)

d) Sugatha Kumari

 182) Who is the Chairperson of National Commission for

Women?

a)Rekha Sharma (Ans)

b) Kamlesh Gautam

c) Chandramukhi Devi

d) Shyamala S. Kundar

 183) The Headquarters of National Commission for

Women is ----
 a)Bombay

b) Indore

c) New Delhi (Ans)

d) Kolkata

 184) ------is a systematic methodology for examining

the differences in roles and norms for women and men,
girls and boys

a)Gender Segregation

b) Gender analysis (Ans)

c) Gender Ranking

d) Gender Bias

 185) Gender Analysis Matrix (GAM), developed by------

a)Hirsi Ali

b) Rani Parker (Ans)

c) Audrey de Nazelle

d) Mary Daly

 186) -------means preparing budgets or analyzing

them from a gender perspective

a)Gender budgeting (Ans)

b) Gender analysis

c) Gender Audit

d) Gender Ranking