Growing Up as Boys and Girls Class 7 Case Study Social Science Political Science Chapter 4

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Hello students, we are providing case study questions for class 7 social science. Case study questions or passage based questions are the new question format that is introduced in CBSE board. The resources for case study questions or passage based questions are very less. So, to help students we have created chapterwise case study and passage based questions for class 7 social science. In this article, you will find case study for CBSE Class 7 Social Science Political Science (Civics) Chapter 4 Growing Up as Boys and Girls. It is a part of Case Study Questions for CBSE Class 7 Social Science Series.

Chapter	Growing Up as Boys and Girls
Type of Questions	Case Study Questions
Other name	Passage Based Questions
Nature of Questions	Competency Based Questions
Board	CBSE
Class	7
Subject	Social Science – Political Science
Book	SOCIAL AND POLITICAL LIFE–III
Unit	Unit 3 Gender
Useful for	Class 7 Studying Students
Answers provided	Yes
Difficulty level	Mentioned
Important Link	Class 7 Social Science Chapterwise Case Study

Case Study Questions on Chapter “Growing Up as Boys and Girls” Class 7

Questions

Passage 1:

Read the following passage and answer the questions:

The boys’ school had no such courtyard and our playground was just a big space attached to the school. Every evening, once school was over, the boys watched as hundreds of school girls crowded the narrow streets. As these girls walked on the streets, they looked so purposeful. This was unlike the boys who used the streets as a place to stand around idling, to play and to try out tricks with their bicycles. For the girls, the street was simply a place to get straight home. The girls always went in groups, perhaps because they also carried fears of being teased or attacked. Most of the people do not feel that housework is a real work. In our societies housework is undertaken by women. Housework involves various works such as cooking, cleaning, wash-up, care-giving to the children, elderly and sick members and these lie with women. The work that women do within the home is not recognized as work. Most domestic workers are women and sometimes these may be young boys or girls. Even these domestic workers are not treated with little respect. They are working hard from early morning to late night. In many cases they are not permitted to eat completely. Housework actually involves different tasks. Many of these require heavy physical work such as to fetch water, carry heavy head-loads, lifting and carrying articles, etc. and in most of the cases these tasks are undertaken by the domestic workers.

Q. 1. ‘The boys’ school had no such courtyard”. Which courtyard is being talked about?

Ans. The boys’ school and the girls’ school were designed differently as the boy’s school had no courtyard as the girl’s school had, here, the courtyard is the playground, or a big space attached to the school where boys and girls used to play.

Q. 2. For what purpose did the boys use the street?

Ans. The boys used the streets as a place to stand around idling, to play, to try out tricks with their bicycles, etc. and not just for walking home, the way girls used it.

Q. 3. This term is commonly used to describe women’s work situation. It has emerged from a recognition that women typically labour both inside the home (housework) and outside.
(a) Double-work
(b) Double-labor
(c) Double-burden
(d) Double-recognition

Ans. Option (c) is correct.
Explanation: This is called double burden. In which the person has to work at home and outside.  of women are facing double burden.

Q. 4. Doing household work is work or not?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) Both a and b
(d) None of these

Ans. Option (a) is correct.

Explanation: As household work does not give any money and it doesn’t need any special type of talent or study, it is not valued in the society and not considered as work.

Q. 5. Who has the main responsibility of housework across the world?
(a) Men
(b) Children
(c) Women
(d) Old people

Ans. Option (c) is correct.
Explanation: All over the world, women are the ones who are mainly responsible for the household work.
On the other hand, men are responsible for earning money and participating in employment.
In ancient India, men were considered as the bread winners of the family and the women of the house were responsible for all the household work and taking care of the elderly.
According to studies, 71 percent of the men participate in employment whereas, only 22 percent of the women do it.

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Topics from which case study questions may be asked

Here is a list of topics from which case study or passage based questions may be asked.

• Understand that gender is a social construct and not determined by biological difference.
• Learn to interrogate gender construction in different social and economic contexts.
• To link everyday practises with the creation of inequality and question it.

Being a boy or a girl is an important part of one’s identity. The society we grow up in teaches us what kind of behaviour is acceptable for girls and boys and what boys and girls can or cannot do. Gender is a social construction through which the social and cultural roles of males and females are defined. Most of the societies value men and women differently. The role women play and the work they do are usually valued less than the roles men play and the work they do. This clears the fact that men and women do not have the same status.

Our society does not make distinctions between boys and girls when they are growing up. All societies do not think similarly about the roles that boys and girls play.

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