Class 7 Civics Chapter 4 Question Answers - Growing up as Boys and Girls

Q1. What did girls do in Samoan Island?
Ans: Girls had to continue looking after small children or do errands for adults till they were teenagers. Once they became teenagers they had much more freedom.
After the age of 14 or so, girls also went on fishing trips, worked in the plantations, and learnt how to weave baskets. In the cooking boys were supposed to do most of the work while girls helped with the preparations.

Q2. What was the idea developed by Harmeet and why?
Ans: Harmeet wanted to prove that women do lots of work within home and also have importance. Therefore, Harmeet and his mother decided to go on strike. Harmeet’s mother did nothing full day. In a single day of strike of housewife the house was a mess.

Q3. How is the distinction made between boys and girls through there playing of toys?
Ans: A clear distinction between boys and girls can be seen from a very young age. Boys are usually given cars, gun while girls given dolls, utensils etc. to play with. It is because of telling children that they will have different futures and they have specific roles to play when they grow up to be men and women.

Q4. Why don’t the family members allow women to work outside? H.
Ans: Also in the present scenario, many families are not allowing women to work outside because they think that it will be shameful if any woman work outside in an office or in a factory. Secondly, sense of security is also a barrier whereby family members say not to work.

Q5. Name the works which are undertaken by the domestic workers.
Ans: Housework actually involves different tasks. Many of these require heavy physical works such as to fetch water, carry heavy head-loads, lifting and carrying articles etc., and in most of the cases these tasks are undertaken by the domestic workers.
Apart from this, sweeping and cleaning, washing of clothes and dishes, cooking, looking after young children or the elders in the cities while in the rural areas domestic workers perform cattle rearing, working in the fields, carrying bags of grains etc., alongwith domestic works.

Q6. Why is housework still not considered as a work?
Ans: Most of the people do not feel housework is a real work because of a thinking that the work produced in the house is worthless. The people think that in our societies housework must be undertaken by the women.
Housework involves various works such as cooking, cleaning, wash-up, care-giving to the children, elderly and sick members and these housework lie with women. The work that women do within the home is not recognized as work.