EXERCISES

How do you think stereotypes about what women can or cannot do, affect women's right to equality?

Give one reason why learning the alphabet was so important to women like Rashsundari Devi, Ramabai and Rokeya.

"Poor girls drop out of school because they are not interested in getting an education." Read the paragraph given below and explain why this statement is not true.

There are several reasons why children from Dalit, Adivasi, and Muslim communities leave school. In many parts of the country, especially in rural and poor areas, there may not even be proper schools or teachers who teach on a regular basis.

Can you describe two methods of struggle that the women's movement used to raise issues? If you had to organise a struggle against stereotypes about what women can or cannot do, what method would you employ from the ones you have read about? Why would you choose this particular method?