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CBSE drops ‘disobedient wives’ question, to award full marks
Updated On: 14 December, 2021 07:46 AM IST | New Delhi | Agencies
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The CBSE on Monday dropped a comprehension passage and the accompanying questions from the Class-10 English exam and decided to award full marks for it to students, following an outrage over the board allegedly promoting “gender stereotyping” and supporting “regressive notions”.
In the Std 10 exam conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Saturday, the question paper carried a comprehension passage with sentences such as “emancipation of women destroyed the parents’ authority over the children” and “it was only by accepting her husband’s way that a mother could gain obedience over the younger ones”.
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