Homework Assignment 7 | Class 7 BBC Compacta Solutions PDF Download

Answer the following questions, based on the passage above. 

(i)  
Ans: (b) explain the relationship between child labour and female illiteracy

(ii)
Ans: Child labour is harmful for children because it deprives them of opportunities for success and hinders their educational, social, or physical development. It interferes with a child's ability to enrol and fully participate in school, affecting their potential to be adequately educated.

(iii) 
Ans: FALSE

(iv) 
Ans: (d) Domestic labour more adversely affects girls than boys.

(v)
Ans: (b) To put an end to their poverty

(vi)
Ans: (b) Paragraph 2

(vii)
Ans: Two examples of gender discrimination against girl children are: 1) the tendency for families to turn to their daughters, rather than their sons, for domestic labour, and 2) the societal acceptance of girls performing domestic work, which is not seen as 'work' and thus, not compensated or valued as such.

(viii)
Ans: Monitoring of child labour in domestic and agricultural areas is difficult.

(ix)
Ans: Children below at the age 14 cannot be employed in any hazardous work in factories or businesses.