Women Empowerment | MCQs

Explanation

International Malala Day is observed every year on July 12 

celebrate the life and legacy of Pakistani education activist and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai.

Malala Day theme 2023:  I am Malala

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About Malala Yousafzai

Born: 1997

Belongs: Mingora, Swat

Received Noble Prize in 2014

She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate 

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Under Section 3 of the Anti-Harassment Act, 2016, was under way in all departments of Balochistan and so far such committees had been set up in 17 departments.

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In May 2024, Dr Helen Mary Roberts has been promoted to the rank of brigadier in the Pakistan Army Medical Corps.

Helen Mary Roberts  is the the first female brigadier to hail from the country’s Christian community.

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Explanation

Passage

The strong efforts to gain equality for women in the scientific workplace began to show results in the last quarter of the twentieth century: women have secured positions as research scientists and won recognition and promotion within their fields. Though the modern struggle for equality in scientific fields is the same in many ways as it was in the early part of the century, it is also different. The woman who first began undertaking careers in science had little support from any part of the society in which they lived. This vanguard had to struggle alone against the social conditioning they had received as women members of that society and against the male-dominated scientific community.

Women scientific researchers made a seemingly auspicious beginning. In the first quarter of the twentieth century, some women scientists who engaged in research worked at the most prestigious institutes of the period and enjoyed more career mobility than women researchers would experience again for several decades. Florence Sabin, an anatomist at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research noted for her research on the lymphatic system, is one important example. This encouraging beginning, however, was not to be followed by other successes for many decades. To have maintained an active role in research institutions, women would have had to share some of the decision-making power: they needed to be part of hiring, promotion, and funding decisions. Unfortunately, these early women scientists were excluded from the power structure of scientific research. As a result, they found it almost impossible to provide opportunities for a younger set of female colleagues seeking employment in a research setting, to foster their productivity and facilitate their career mobility, and eventually to allow them access to the top ranks.

Even those with very high professional aspirations accepted subordinate status as assistants if doing so seemed necessary to gain access to research positions—and too often these were the only positions offered to them in their chosen careers. Time and again they pulled back from offering any real resistance or challenge to the organizational structure that barred their advancement. But we must remember that these women scientists were few in number, their participation in decision-making positions was virtually nil, and their political clout was minimal. Thus, they could easily become highly visible targets for elimination from the staff, especially if their behavior was judged in this least imprudent.

Women’s awareness that they were unequal colleagues, included in professional settings only on the sufferance of male colleagues, who held the positions of power, conflicted with their belief in meritocracy. They wanted to believe that achieving persons would be welcomed for their abilities and contributions. Yet they were surrounded by evidence to the contrary. An assistant professor of zoology observed that the men who were heads of departments were insistent on having other men in the department; they told her that women ought to be satisfied teaching high school. She relates that, during her ten years in the department, men were given at least six positions that she was qualified for and wanted desperately, but for which she was not even considered because she was a woman.

1. The primary purpose of the passage is to _____?

Explain a situation

2. The passage as a whole suggest that "career mobility" means the____?

Ability to advance in one's chosen field

3. The statement that women could be eliminated from their jobs if their behavior was "the least imprudent" suggests primarily that they ____?

Were judged by a standard different from the one used to Judge their male colleagues

4. The last paragraph of the passage suggests that for majority of women scientists, the "belief in meritocracy" was _____?

Inconsistent with the fact that they were discriminated against on the job

5. The example of the assistant professor of zoology serves primarily to indicate the ____?

Extent of male bias against women in scientific fields at a particular form

Explanation

Quaid-e-Azam emphasized that women were equal partners in the movement for Pakistan.

His encouragement led to a broader and more active role of women in the independence struggle.

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The first woman Ombudsperson of Punjab is Ayesha Hamid.

She was sworn in on October 9, 2024.

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First Women Bank Limited commenced its business on 02 December 1989.

First Women Bank Limited (FWBL) is a commercial bank located in Karachi.

 Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto set up the first bank in December 1989. 

ND8-1-2023

Explanation

Suman Kumari Bodani, Pakistan's first Hindu woman judge in 2019.

She lives in Qambar Shahdadkot District. 

She is currently serving in her native district, Qambar Shahdadkot

Explanation

مریم 18 مئی 1992ء کو کراچی میں پیدا ہوئیں۔ آپ کے والد کرنل (ر) مختیار احمد شیخ پاک فوج میں شامل تھے ۔ طویل جدوجہد کے بعد ان کی محنت رنگ لائی اور 2014ء میں وہ پاک فضائیہ سے بطور فائٹر پائلٹ منسلک ہوگئیں۔

24 نومبر 2015ء کی صبح مریم اپنے انسٹرکٹر، ثاقب عباسی کے ساتھ معمول کی مشق پر روانہ ہوئیں۔ جب وہ ضلع گجرات کی فضاؤں میں پرواز کررہے تھے، تو اچانک انجن میں آگ لگ گئی اور وہ دھڑا دھڑ جلنے لگا۔

دراصل اس وقت ان کا طیارہ آبادی کے اوپر اڑ رہا تھا۔ اس کے پرے کھیت واقع تھے۔ دونوں بہادر پائلٹوں نے فیصلہ کیا کہ چھلانگ لگانے کا فیصلہ چند لمحوں کے لیے ملتوی کردیا جائے تاکہ طیارہ آبادی کے بجائے کھیتوں کے اوپر پہنچ جائے ۔  مگر یہی چند قیمتی لمحے مریم کی شہادت کا سبب بن گئے۔