UPSC Social Justice – Chapter 6: Women – Laws, Institutions and Empowerment (22 MCQs)
UPSC Social Justice – Chapter 6: Women – Laws, Institutions and Empowerment (22 MCQs) – 22 questions, subject: Social Justice. Every question has the correct answer with a one-line explanation; tap "Show Answer". Free practice for TNPSC, UPSC, SSC, Bank and RRB exams – Shanmugam IAS Academy, Coimbatore.
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Which Article allows the State to make special provisions for women and children?
Correct Answer: A [Article 15(3)]
Explanation:
Article 15(3) allows the State to make special provisions for women and children despite the general bar on sex discrimination.
India ratified CEDAW in:
Correct Answer: B [1993]
Explanation:
CEDAW was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1979 and India ratified it in 1993.
The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2013 requires an Internal Committee in every workplace with at least:
Correct Answer: C [10 workers]
Explanation:
The POSH Act requires every employer with ten or more workers to set up an Internal Committee; smaller workplaces are covered by Local Committees.
Paid maternity leave under the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 2017 is:
Correct Answer: D [26 weeks]
Explanation:
The 2017 amendment raised paid maternity leave from 12 to 26 weeks for women with fewer than two surviving children.
Under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2013, the Internal or Local Committee must complete its inquiry into a complaint within:
Correct Answer: C [90 days]
Explanation:
the committee must complete its inquiry within 90 days; the employer then acts within 60 days.
The National Commission for Women was set up under an Act of:
Correct Answer: B [1990]
Explanation:
The National Commission for Women Act was passed in 1990, and the Commission was set up under it in January 1992.
The Nirbhaya Fund for projects on the safety of women was created in:
Correct Answer: B [2013]
Explanation:
the Nirbhaya Fund was created in 2013, after the December 2012 Delhi gang rape.
"Sambal" and "Samarthya" are sub-schemes of:
Correct Answer: D [Mission Shakti]
Explanation:
Mission Shakti (from 2021–22) has two sub-schemes: Sambal for safety and Samarthya for empowerment.
The report "Towards Equality" (1974) was about:
Correct Answer: C [the status of women in India]
Explanation:
Towards Equality (1974), by the Committee on the Status of Women in India, showed that women's status had declined since Independence.
Consider the following statements:
1. The Domestic Violence Act, 2005 gives a woman the right to reside in the shared household.
2. The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 made daughters coparceners.
3. The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 followed the Vishaka Committee report.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct Answer: B [1 and 2 only]
Explanation:
Statements 1 and 2 are correct; the 2013 criminal law amendment followed the Justice Verma Committee, not Vishaka, so statement 3 is wrong.
Assertion (A): Beti Bachao Beti Padhao was launched in Haryana.
Reason (R): Haryana had one of the lowest child sex ratios in India in Census 2011.
Correct Answer: A [Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A]
Explanation:
BBBP was launched at Panipat, Haryana, in January 2015 because Haryana had one of the lowest child sex ratios in Census 2011.
India's child sex ratio (0–6 years) in Census 2011 was:
Correct Answer: C [919]
Explanation:
Census 2011 recorded a child sex ratio of 919 girls per 1,000 boys aged 0–6, down from 927 in 2001.
Which law was renamed in 2003 to cover pre-conception sex selection?
Correct Answer: B [PCPNDT Act]
Explanation:
The 1994 PNDT Act was amended in 2003 and renamed the PCPNDT Act to cover pre-conception sex selection.
In which case did the Supreme Court decriminalise adultery?
Correct Answer: B [Joseph Shine]
Explanation:
2018.
Under PMMVY, the benefit for the first child is:
Correct Answer: C [₹5,000]
Explanation:
PMMVY gives ₹5,000 for the first child, and ₹6,000 for a second child if it is a girl.
Arrange the following laws in chronological order:
1. Dowry Prohibition Act
2. Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act
3. Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act
4. PCPNDT Act
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Correct Answer: C [1-4-2-3]
Explanation:
1961, 1994, 2005, 2013.
The MTP (Amendment) Act, 2021 raised the upper limit for termination of pregnancy for certain categories of women to:
Correct Answer: D [24 weeks]
Explanation:
The MTP (Amendment) Act, 2021 raised the upper limit from 20 to 24 weeks for certain categories of women.
One Stop Centres for women affected by violence are also known as:
Correct Answer: C [Sakhi]
Explanation:
One Stop Centres, running since 2015 under the Sambal part of Mission Shakti, are known as Sakhi centres.
The first woman member of a legislature in British India, who campaigned against the devadasi system, was:
Correct Answer: A [S. Muthulakshmi Reddy]
Explanation:
nominated to the Madras Legislative Council in 1926.
The Constitution (106th Amendment) Act, 2023 (Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam) reserves for women:
Correct Answer: A [one-third of the seats in the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies]
Explanation:
it takes effect after the delimitation that follows the next census.
Which of the following gives 'Global Gender Gap Index' ranking to the countries of the world?
Correct Answer: A [World Economic Forum]
Explanation:
the WEF has published the Global Gender Gap Report since 2006.
'Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action' often seen in the news, is:
Correct Answer: C [an agenda for women's empowerment, an outcome of a World Conference convened by the United Nations.]
Explanation:
adopted at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995.
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