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Which statement most accurately describes 'patriarchy' in Gender Studies discourse?
A. A political system where women hold primary power over institutions
B. A social system where men hold primary power and dominate roles in political leadership, moral authority, and control of property
C. An economic model focused solely on female-headed households
D. A temporary cultural practice limited to pre-industrial societies
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Patriarchy is understood as a social system in which men hold primary power across institutions and social roles.
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Which best describes 'gender mainstreaming' as promoted by the United Nations?
A. Creating separate policies for men and women without altering existing programs
B. Prioritizing women's issues in all government budgets exclusively
C. Assessing the implications for people of different genders in all stages of policy, program and project development
D. Eliminating gender-specific data collection to treat all citizens uniformly
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Gender mainstreaming means evaluating and integrating gender perspectives into all stages of policy and program development to promote equality.
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What does CEDAW, a key international instrument often studied in Gender Studies, stand for?
A. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
B. Charter for Equality and Development of All Women
C. Committee on Enforcement of Domestic Actions for Women
D. Convention on Economic Development and Women's Rights
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CEDAW is the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the primary international treaty on women's rights.
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Who coined the term 'intersectionality' to describe how race, gender, and other identities overlap in experiences of discrimination?
A. Kimberlé Crenshaw
B. Judith Butler
C. bell hooks
D. Patricia Hill Collins
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Kimberlé Crenshaw introduced 'intersectionality' to explain overlapping systems of oppression in 1989.
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In Gender Studies, how is the term 'gender' best defined?
A. The biological and physiological characteristics that define male and female bodies
B. The socially constructed roles, behaviors and identities associated with being male, female or non-binary
C. A fixed personality trait that all individuals inherit from birth
D. A legal status assigned by the state based solely on anatomy
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Gender refers to socially constructed roles, behaviors and identities rather than innate biological characteristics.
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Which statement best captures the principal aim of feminist literary criticism?
A. To uphold the established literary canon without question
B. To expose and critique patriarchal assumptions in texts and to recover or re-evaluate marginalized women's writing
C. To remove gender as a category of analysis and focus only on formal techniques
D. To assert that literature should be free from political or social analysis
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Feminist criticism interrogates how gender and power operate within texts and seeks to rediscover or reassess women's literary contributions often sidelined by a male-dominated canon.
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In place of Islamic Studies, what option is explicitly allowed for non-Muslim candidates according to the scheme?
A. Ethics and Comparative Law
B. Philosophy of Religion
C. Islamic History and Culture
D. Comparative Study of Major Religions
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The scheme allows non-Muslim candidates to offer Comparative Study of Major Religions instead of Islamic Studies.
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In empirical criminology, which operational indicator is most commonly used to measure recidivism in longitudinal studies?
A. Victimization survey reports of repeat victimization
B. Rearrest rates for a prior offender within a specified follow-up period
C. Self-report surveys asking about past criminal behavior
D. Community perceptions of reduced reoffending
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Recidivism is most often operationalized as rearrest (or reconviction/reincarceration) within a defined follow-up period in longitudinal research.
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Which of the following is NOT a grammatical feature of Balochi?
A. Postpositional phrases rather than prepositions
B. SOV word order
C. Grammatical gender (masculine/feminine distinctions)
D. Use of oblique cases in pronominal forms
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Balochi does not mark grammatical gender in the noun system, unlike languages that distinguish masculine and feminine genders.
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Gender Gap Report is published by:
A. World Bank
B. World Economic Forum
C. IMF
D. None
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The World Economic Forum publishes the annual Global Gender Gap Report that measures gender-based disparities across countries.
