Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Geography

Chapter

Fundamentals of Human Geography: Human Development

Question:
In India, a large number of women and persons belonging to socially and economically backward groups drop out of school.
Which of the pillar of human development is denied here to the girls?
Options:
Equity
Equality
Productivity
Empowerment
Correct Answer:
Equity
Explanation:
Equity refers to making equal access to opportunities available to everybody. The opportunities available to people must be equal irrespective of their gender, race, income and in the Indian case, caste. Yet this is very often not the case and happens in almost every society.