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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
                                                SESSION 2020 – 21
                                                      Class – VII
                                                        CIVICS
                                    CH- 5 : WOMEN CHANGE THE WORLD

                                                  LESSON NOTES


               Sub-Topic 3 : SCHOOLING AND EDUCATION TODAY, WOMEN’S MOVEMENT

               Schooling and  Census
               education
               today                   India has a census every 10 years, which counts the whole
                                         population of the country.
                                       It also gathers detailed information about the people living in
                                         India – their age, schooling, what work they do, and so on.
                                       It also gives information to measure many things, like the
                                         number of literate people and the ratio of men and women.

                                  There are several reasons why children from Dalit, Adivasi and
                                  Muslim communities leave school. Some of them are:

                                     1.  In rural and poor areas, there are neither proper schools nor
                                         teachers.
                                     2.  Schools are often far away from people’s homes and there is
                                         no transport like buses or vans available for girls. So, parents
                                         are not willing to send their girls to school.
                                     3.  Many families are poor and unable to bear the cost of
                                         educating all their children.
                                     4.   In this situation, boys get preference while girls are helping in
                                         the domestic works.
                                     5.  Many children face discrimination from their teacher and
                                         classmates.


               Women’s                 Women and girls now have the right to study and go to school.
               movement                  There  are  other  spheres  –  like  legal  reform,  violence  and
                                         health – where the situation of women and girls has improved.
                                       These changes have not happened automatically.
                                        Women  individually  and  collectively  have  struggled  to  bring
                                         about these changes. This struggle is known as the Women’s
                                         Movement.
                                       Individual  women  and  women’s  organizations  from  different
                                         parts of the country are part of the movement.
               Campaigning             Campaigning  to  fight  discrimination  and  violence  against
                                         women are an important part of the women’s movement.
                                       Campaigns have also led to new laws being passed, a law has
                                         made  in  2006  to  give  women  who  face  physical  and  mental
                                         violence within their home is called domestic violence.

                                  Dowry-death: it is a case of young brides being murdered by their in-
                                  laws or husbands, greedy for more dowries.
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