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Question
The newspaper report said, “Afsana has jumped over the wall. The gender wall that her mother had put up for her.” Think and write in your own words, what was this wall? What do you understand by ‘gender bias’?
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Solution
Gender bias means differential treatment for boys and girls. In many families, in India, girls are not allowed to study, play and opt for a career of their choice. – Afsana has also suffered some degree of gender bias. Her mother wants her to do household chores only. By managing to go to play is an act of bravery by Afsana. She is trying to cross the symbolic wall of gender bias. The wall has been put on by her mother.
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