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1. Women’s movement in India began in the year ;
2. The Research Centre for Women Studies (RCWS) in India was set up in
3. The Centre for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS) in India was founded in
4. In which year did the UGC bring out the guidelines for development of womenstudies in Indian Universities and Colleges ?
5. The Indian Association for Women Studies (IAWS) was set up on
6. The committee on the status of women in India released a report in
7. The first national conference on women’s studies was held in the year
8. Who among the following feminists referred women’s studies to as ‘the academic arm of women’s movement, a potent instrument playing a deliberate and active role in the battle for people’s minds’ and ‘autonomy continues to be battle cry of both’?
9. Which chairperson of the UGC gave a fresh perspective to women’s studies by widening the agenda of the programme, strengthening the role of the participants and giving greater academic credibility to the programme?
10. Which of the following feminist thinkers believed that ‘female subordination is rooted in a set of customary and legal constraints that block women’s entrance and success in the public world’?
11. After whose name was the women’s division of the Indian National Army named?
12. In which year did the women’s movement emerge and had a strong impact on colleges and universities to start women’s studies as an academic discipline?
13. In which of the following Five Year Plans for the first time in the history of planned development in India, the empowerment of women was adopted as one of the objectives?
14. Which committee has recommended the establishment of ‘National Commission for Women?
15. Which of the following is India’s first women photo-journalist?
16. Which of the following structural variables determine women’s work in India?
17. Which constitutional amendment states that the total number of seats to be filled in Panchayats and Municipalities will be reserved for women and should not be less than one third of the total number of seats?
18. Which of the following are the major objectives of ‘Beti Bachao Beti PachaoYojana’?
19. Which of the following universities first started a course on women’s studies?
20. Which of the following Universities first started a course on women’s studies inIndia?
21. Who said the following :‘Educate your women first and leave them themselves,then they will tell you what reforms are necessary for them’
22. Who was the Minister of Women and Child Development when the NationalPolicy on Empowerment of Women was framed?
23. As per ‘Sukanya Samridi Yojana’ the parents of girl children can open an accountfor a girl child up to the age of
24. The 2016 Women Economic Forum (WEF) has been hosted by which of thefollowing countries?
25. The protagonists of the Reformist movement on women’s issues in India were
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