Lesson
1-Gender
Bias Most important
Long Questions Answers
Q1. Write a character sketch of Sudha Murthy?
Ans.The author of this chapter was Sudha murthy; she was very bright at studies.
She was in the final year of her M.tech course at the Indian institute of
science in Bangalore. At that time, this institution was known as the Tata
institution. In her postgraduate department she was the only girl. She also
wanted to go abroad to complete her doctorate in computer science. She was bold
and idealistic. His life was full of fun and joy. She did not know what
helplessness or injustice meant till she come to know about the gender bias
prevalent in the society. She had done better than most of her male classmates.
She had been offered scholarship from classmates. She had been offered
scholarship from university in the US and she did not want to take up any job
in India but there was something different in store for her. An incident
changed her decision of going abroad for further studies and also starting her
career there. One day she saw an advertisement on
the notice board. It was a standard job- requirement from the famous automobile
company, Telco. The author become upset when she reads a line ‘‘Lady Candidates need not
apply’’ she wrote a postcard to Telco to express her displeasure at the
discrimination against women shown by Telco. In reply she got a telegram from
telco. She was called to appear for an interview at Telco’s pune office at
company expense. She remained successful in the interview and got a job in
pune. She was the first women to work on the Telco shop floor. After that Telco
Company started giving work to women also on its shop floor.
Q2. Why did Sudha become angry after reading the job advertisement
from the automobile company, Telco?
Ans.
There was a small line at the bottom of the job advertisement from the famous
company, Telco.it said, “Lady
Candidates need not apply.’’ Sudha was shocked to read this. She was
quite surprised to find such a big company discriminating on the basis of
gender. She grew so angry that she decided to write to the topmost person in
Telco’s management. She wanted to inform the highest official in telco's
management about the injustice that Telco Company was doing. And she wrote a
letter to Mr. JRD Tata, expressing her displeasure at the discrimination
against women. She took it as a challenge to apply for the job which was not
considered applicable for women by the Telco Company.
Q3. What was the reason given by the elderly man for not employing
women in Telco?
Ans.When Sudha went for the interview at Telco’s Pune office, there were six people
on the panel. One of them was an elderly gentleman. He talked to Sudha very
affectionately. He told her why they had said, “Lady Candidates need not apply.’’ He told her
that they had never employed any ladies on the shop floor of the company. This
is not a co-ed” college; this is a factory,’’ he said to Sudha. He appreciated
Sudha for being first ranker throughout her academic. That elderly gentleman
said to Sudha for being first ranker throughout her academic. That elderly
gentleman said to Sudha that bright people like her should work in research
laboratories.
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