On Monday, Sonia Gandhi, the Congress president, spoke out strongly against a “blatantly sexist” comprehensive section in a Class 10 CBSE English question test. On Saturday, Sonia Gandhi remarked a comprehension section in the CBSE English test contained the words “emancipation of women shattered the parental power over the children.”
The CBSE class 10 English question paper’s comprehension passage has generated a storm for reportedly encouraging “gender stereotyping” and supporting “regressive views,” leading the board to refer the problem to a subject specialist.
The Controversy
The question paper for the class 10 exam on Saturday included a comprehension passage that had sentences such as “emancipation of women destroyed the parent’s authority over the children” and “a mother could only gain obedience over the younger ones by accepting her husband’s way,” among others.
“In twentieth-century children got fewer and female uprising was the result…word Father’s was no longer the authority of holy text…”, according to the passage in the CBSE English exam to which the Congress leader was referring. It went on to say that “married women now preserved their identities, and some followed separate occupations,” and that “the wife’s emancipation broke the parent’s control over children.”
Sonia Gandhi’s Remarks
Sonia Gandhi said the passage was “riddled with condemnable ideas” in her speech to the Lok Sabha during the winter session of Parliament. “The chapter is littered with such repulsive concepts, and the questions that follow are similarly ridiculous. I join the concerns of kids, parents, teachers, and educational institutions, and I express my opposition to such blatant misogynist material being included in a CBSE examination “According to Sonia Gandhi,
Sonia Gandhi demanded that the Union Education Ministry and the CBSE delete the question and apologise immediately.
Sonia speaks about ‘misogynistic’ questions in the CBSE exam paper
