QUESTION 17
GS2
15 marks
“Though women in post-Independent India have excelled in various fields, the social attitude towards women and feminist movement has been patriarchal.” Apart from women education and women empowerment schemes, what interventions can help change this milieu?
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11 min
250 words
What the examiner wants
Suggest interventions, other than education and empowerment schemes, that can change patriarchal attitudes towards women.
Suggest interventionsAnswer exactly what the question asks.
Demand-wise check
- 1Acknowledge achievements and persisting attitudes (son preference, unpaid care, violence)≈50 words
- 2Interventions: engaging men and boys, gender-sensitive curricula and media, equal inheritance enforcement, shared parental leave, community norms campaigns≈50 words
- 3Institutional: women in police and judiciary, reservation in legislatures (Nari Shakti Vandan Act 2023), safe public spaces≈50 words
- 4Economic: property in women's names, childcare infrastructure≈50 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
ContextInterventions grouped (social, legal, institutional, economic)Conclusion
Where marks usually go
- Repeating education and empowerment schemes, which the question excludes
- No mention of men's role
Draw this
- Wheel with spokes: men and boys, curricula/media, inheritance, parental leave, women police/judges, legislature quota
Value addition
- LawThe Constitution (106th Amendment) Act, 2023 reserves one-third of Lok Sabha and Assembly seats for women, effective after the next delimitation.Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, 2023
- DataWomen do about 7 times more unpaid domestic work than men in India (Time Use Survey 2019).NSO Time Use Survey 2019
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