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Management Programme
ASSIGNMENT
FIRST SEMESTER
(January to June) 2020
MS – MDV-004
School of Management Studies
INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
MAIDAN GARHI, NEW DELHI – 110 068
ASSIGNMENT
| Course Code : | MDV-004 |
| Course Title : | |
| Assignment Code : | MDV-004 |
| Coverage : | All Blocks |
ASSIGNMENT – 6
Answer all the questions. All questions carry 20 marks each.
Course Code: MDV-004
Maximum Marks: 100
Question. 1. Explain Power, Subordination and Empowerment with regard to Gender?
Answer : Meaningful engagement with men and boys is increasingly recognized as critical to gender equality and equity, necessary not only for women’s empowerment, but also for transforming the social and gender norms that reinforce patriarchy and inequality and harm both women and men. The primary challenge embedded in this work is how to engage men and boys effectively without instrumentalizing them as a pathway to women’s empowerment on the one hand, or marginalizing women and girls in gender equity work on the other. Doing so requires a solid understanding of the conceptual underpinning of male
Question.2. What are Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI)? Explain.
Answer : The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity.
The 17 SDGs are integrated—they recognize that action in one area will affect outcomes in others, and that development must balance social, economic and environmental sustainability.
Countries have committed to prioritize progress for those who’re furthest behind. The SDGs are designed to end poverty, hunger, AIDS,
Question.3. Explain Radical Feminism? Describe its contribution to Women’s Movement?
Answer : Radical feminism is a philosophy emphasizing the patriarchal roots of inequality between men and women, or, more specifically, the social domination of women by men. Radical feminism views patriarchy as dividing societal rights, privileges, and power primarily along the lines of sex, and as a result, oppressing women and privileging men.
Radical feminism opposes existing political and social organization in general because it is inherently tied to patriarchy. Thus, radical feminists tend to be skeptical of political action within the current system and instead tend to focus on culture change that undermines patriarchy and associated hierarchical structures.
Question.4. Explain the Women Entrepreneurs in India? Describe the problems faced by them
Answer : Women entrepreneur may be defined as a women or a group of women who innovates imitates for adopts an economic activity.
In other words, any women or a group of women who initiate organize and operate a business enterprise.
According to the Government of India, a woman entrepreneur is defined as, an enterprise owned and controlled by a woman and enterprise owned and controlled by a woman and having a minimum financial interest of 51% of the employment
Question.5. What do you understand by Education? Explain the barriers to Women’s Education?
Answer: Nelson Mandela once said “No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Education is the great engine of personal development.”
Education is the wise, hopeful and respectful cultivation of learning and change undertaken in the belief that we all should have the chance to share in life.
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