: CBSE drops controversial passage on women from question paper after outrage #IndiaNEWS The Central Board of Secondary Education on Monday dropped a passage from a Class 10 examination paper after political

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CBSE drops controversial passage on women from question paper after outrage #IndiaNEWS
The Central Board of Secondary Education on Monday dropped a passage from a Class 10 examination paper after political leaders criticised the portrayal of women in its text. The passage, which dealt with lack of discipline among teenagers, was aimed at testing the students’ reading comprehension abilities. The passage appeared in a Class 10 English question paper on Saturday.One paragraph from the passage stated: “What people were slow to observe was that the emancipation of the wife destroyed the parent’s authority over children. The mother did not exemplify the obedience upon which she still tried to insist.�It added: “There was more room now for disagreement between the parents, enabling the child to appeal from one to another, eventually ignoring both. In bringing the man down from his pedestal the wife and the mother deprived herself, in fact of the means of discipline.�The passage stated that “some teenagers live in a world of their own� and went on to cite “lack of parental authority� as one of the reasons behind it. It said that over a century ago, the husband was considered the “master of the house� and the wife gave him “formal obedience�.“It was only by accepting her husband’s sway that she could gain obedience from the...Read more

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