Exam 1: Womens Studies and Empowerment in India: A Historical Perspective

Which of the following universities first started a course on women's studies?

The Research Centre for Women Studies (RCWS) in India was set up in

In which year did the UGC bring out the guidelines for development of women studies in Indian Universities and Colleges ?

Who was the Minister of Women and Child Development when the National Policy on Empowerment of Women was framed?

Which of the following is India's first women photo-journalist?

The Indian Association for Women Studies (IAWS) was set up on

The committee on the status of women in India released a report in

Which of the following Universities first started a course on women's studies in India?

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?

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?

After whose name was the women's division of the Indian National Army named?

The Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS) in India was founded in

The first national conference on women's studies was held in the year

Who said the following :'Educate your women first and leave them themselves, then they will tell you what reforms are necessary for them'

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'?

Which of the following structural variables determine women's work in India?

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?

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?

The protagonists of the Reformist movement on women's issues in India were

Women's movement in India began in the year ;