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Create a Website on the topic:

Population Demographic Dividend and Gender Inequality

Read the Instructions carefully before beginning your project:

1. It could be a Collaborative (group of 2) / Individual project

2. Create a website inclusive of atleast 10 web pages.

3. The content in the website must be original i.e. no copy-paste from the

Internet.

4. The website should include links to various resources apart from your

project content.

5. The websites could include graphics / animations / videos/ pictures /

sound.

6. The grading criteria is: Presentation, Organization, Content, Easy Navigation (using GUI) Communication, Effective use of tools & pictures. Group discussion / oral presentations on the topic.

7. Only choose the subjects relevant to you.

8. Include all the following topics in your Website:

1. Population dividend and Gender Inequality (Economics)

You could cover the following aspects in your presentation:

a) Problems of a population explosion (in developing countries) vs problems of a shrinking population. ( in the developed world )

b) Differences in the Population structures of the developing and developed countries – Implications for the governments

c) Male - female ratio in the developed and developing countries. d) Population - “Demographic dividend or liability”

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Useful sources of information and internet sites:

1) World bank annual report 2) WTO International trade data and news 3) The Economist http ://www.economist .com 4) World Development Report 5) Human Development Report 6) IMF: Country information 7) IMF : World Economic Outlook 8) s-cool 9) bized 10) tutor2u.net 11) Population Census Survey 2011 ( India )

2. Population ratio in India (Mathematics)

In 1961, there were 978 females to 1000 male children in the 0-6 population. By

2001, the figure had declined to 927.

The 2011 census showed a further decline to 914. By contrast, the overall sex ratio

since 1961 has not declined in a consistent manner. In 1961, this figure stood at 941

females per 1000 males. In 2011, females number 940 per 1000 males. Till the

1980s, the sex ratio for the 0 to 6 group was much higher than the overall sex ratio.

(See Chart) Its reversal is a cause of great concern.

India’s population accounts for the world’s 17.5 per cent, second only to China that constitutes 19.4 per cent. The country’s headcount is almost equal to the combined population of the United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Japan, put together.

The population of India has increased by more than 181 million during 2001-11. This is the first decade which has actually added less population compared to the previous decade, Chandramauli said.

1) Provisional findings of the 2011 census data revealed that the number of females

per thousand males in the age group of zero to six years reached its lowest level

since India's independence.

a) Look up data for the last 30 years and check the veracity of this claim.

b) Research and write what could be the possible reasons for this alarming

situation. Provide adequate data to verify and collaborate your claims.

c) Use histograms/ piecharts and knowledge of percentages and rates of change

to come up with your justification.

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2)

Given above is the graph of the Decadal growth of Indian population (1901-2011).

a) Express the population of India in 2011 in billions.

b) Calculate the percentage increase in the population of India post

Independence.

c) India’s population growth rate has decelerated to 17.64 per cent in the decade

2001-11. Explain how can this be verified?

3) Research the internet and write

a) What is IMR.

b) What is the national average of IMR

c) How is IMR calculated?

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a) Research, collect data and Calculate the infant mortality rate in any 10 states

of your choice for the year 2010.

b) Find the ratio of the various religion groups , infant mortality rate for the year

2010.

c) What analysis do you make from this?

d) Calculate the change in the infant mortality rate in the states which you

referred to in the years 2008 and 2010.

5) Provisional data from the census was released on March 31, 2011. Complete

results are expected to be released in 2012

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Population Total 1,210,193,422

Males 623,724,248

Females 586,469,174

Literacy Total 74.04%

Males 82.14%

Females 65.46%

Density of population per sq. km 382

Sex ratio per 1000 males 940 females

a) What is the ratio of men to women?

b) How do you think is the total literacy rate calculated? What are its

implications?

c) How do you think this data useful to a country?

d) What do you mean by density of population? What does the number 382

signify?

e) What does the sex ratio 1000: 940 signify?

f) Collect data for the past three decades and compare the data with the data for

2011.

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a) Create a family tree of your family for the past 60 years and predict what the

scenario of your family is and stand with respect to the presence and

upbringing of girls in your family. What are the goals and aspirations for the

girl child in your family?

b) Interview your house help and collect a similar data for his/her family.

c) Compare your family’s stand versus your helps stand on the upbringing of the

girl child.

3. Sex determination in India (Biology)

a. Sex determination- how is it done; why is it done? b. Incorrect use of sex discrimination. c. Female feticide – impact on women’s health, nutrition, psychological

problems, biological imbalance. d. What are the long term effects of such practices.

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4. The changing status of Women in 20th century- causes and effects

(History)

Write an article on the above-mentioned topic illustrating with suitable Source

examples The article should cover examples from both Indian and world history.

You have been provided with examples of the sources.

Example sources

Source 1.

Source 2

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Source 3

New York Suffragist on Her Way to March 3, 1913 Suffrage Parade in Washington, DC

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Courtesy US Library of Congress

Source 4

Woman is the incarnation of ahimsa. Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity

for suffering. And who but woman, the mother of man, shows this capacity in the largest measure?...

Let her translate that love to the whole of humanity... And she will occupy her proud position by the

side of man... She can become the leader in satyagraha...---- Quotation by Mahatma Gandhi

5. THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE ENVIRONMENT (Environmental Management)

Read all the sources above and research on your own. Write an article

about the importance of women on environmental issues, using examples

to illustrate.

Source 1

“Women make up 20-30 percent of agricultural wage workers and often predominate

in high-value industries for export - such as fresh fruits, vegetables and flowers.

Although these non-traditional sectors of agriculture can present women with

unprecedented income opportunities, we often find that women are hired on

temporary or casual contracts to perform labour-intensive, manual tasks. They are

given limited opportunities to acquire new skills and, overall, higher-level positions

continue to be captured by men,” says Crowley.

“To fight hunger in the world we will need the energies of both men and women. Worldwide, rural women are key to food security: they make up a significant share of agricultural producers and play a crucial role in feeding their families and their nations,” she affirms.

“Recognizing women’s contribution and taking into account their needs at all levels – in countries, in institutions and in policy – is therefore essential to increasing their productive capacities and to unleashing the greater contribution they can provide.”

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Source 2

Underneath four pipal trees in Dadar Kolhua village in Bihar, India, men and women are gathering for a meeting. Sitting at a table in front of them is Amita Devi. Three years ago she wore a veil and rarely left her house without a chaperone - addressing a 400-strong crowd would have been unthinkable. But today Amita is president of the panchayat (village council).

"I never had the opportunity to study beyond high school," said Amita, "but I want the girls from my village to go to university." Fielding questions on pensions for widows, road repair and land rights – subjects that matter to the villagers who elected her - Amita is one of 1.2 million women representatives in rural India.

Rita Sarin, India director of The Hunger Project (THP), a charity that supports women in panchayats, calls the transfer of power to rural women "the greatest social experiment of our times".

"The priorities of an elected woman leader are different to those of men," she explained. "Men focus on building roads, temples, a centre for council meetings. But women are diverting funds to the health of their children, the education of their daughters."

"From drinking water and polio vaccine campaigns to primary health centres and schools, women are redesigning the development agenda," said Sarin.

SOURCE 3

Kristof and WuDunn provide a compelling argument. But their philosophy should go

one further: in addition to reducing poverty, helping women also helps the environment. According to a recent articlein The Jakarta Post, the Indonesian

Environmental Ministry has begun offering classes to women in Yogyakarta and Central Java about water conservation. Since women provide food for their families,

they’re also the ones who acquire water each day. “In almost every village, it is a woman’s responsibility to provide water, whether as a mother or daughter,” says

Linda Amalia Sari Gumelar, the Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Minister. Public works agencies that build water projects ignore the needs of women

at their own peril. “Planners should be aware of the different conditions: women on foot and men on motorcycles. In housework, water is closely-related to domestic

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work. Distances between water sources and settlements should be calculated

carefully.”

Since women transport water, and then use it to cook and clean for their families,

they make natural gatekeepers for water sources, the first-line-of-defense conservationists who can teach their peers how to make their daily water portion go

further. Though the true impact of the Environmental Ministry water protection classes in Indonesia has yet to be realized, focusing on the environment by focusing

on women is smart policy. Women hold up half the sky – it’s true. And if we let them, it’ll be a cleaner sky at that

SOURCE 4

Help women and you help the world. It’s a philosophy gaining traction among international development gurus who say women in the global south are the best

providers for their families and communities

Science and technology offers solutions to many challenges faced by rural women: they can contribute to food security by boosting crop yields; reduce women’s domestic and productive work by introducing labour-saving technologies; and increase participation of women in the rural labour market through better communications.

Women can also benefit greatly from tools that encourage knowledge and information sharing. When made available to them, new and basic Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can help reduce women’s isolation, improve their bargaining power and ability to pool skills.

A good example of this are the community-learning centers run by theSelf Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in India, which use innovations such as satellite and telecommunication to enable women to access agricultural extension, soil and pest

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analysis, and health diagnostic expertise even in remote rural areas. Some centres contain equipment libraries with innovative technology-sharing arrangements that allow poor women to access technologies, which would otherwise be unavailable to them. Female leaders from different villages also help to identify village demand for improved certified seeds and other technologies - then purchase them wholesale, and ensure they reach women farmers who need them most.

SOURCE 5

Investing in rural women contributes to food security

Women in agriculture play a vital role as agents of food security and rural economic growth, but often endure poor working conditions and receive limited recognition for their contributions. The International Day of Rural Women takes place each year on October 15 to honour the multiple roles that rural women play worldwide.

Rural women form the backbone of the agricultural labour force across much of the developing world. Globally, more than a third of the female workforce is engaged in agriculture, while in regions like Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, more than 60 per cent of all female employment is in this sector. To afford food and other basic expenses, men and women in rural areas often diversify their income by combining multiple forms of employment. Women generally work as subsistence farmers, small-scale entrepreneurs, unpaid workers on family farms or casual wage labourers – but they may take on all or a number of these activities at different times. Because in many developing countries women carry out a range of vital household and caring tasks, their overall working hours tend to be longer than men’s. In countries like Benin and Tanzania, for example, rural women work respectively 17.4 and 14 hours longer per week than their male counterparts.

SOURCE 6

“Broader access to electricity and modern fuels is a means for women's

empowerment, access to education, health care, and prosperity and, through

sustainable technologies, such as solar panels and clean and efficient cook stoves,

lives are saved and our environment protected,” said Leena Srivastava, Executive

Director of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).

Worldwide some 2.7 billion people rely on traditional biomass for cooking and

heating, and 1.4 billion have no access to electricity, with one billion more having

access only to unreliable electricity networks.

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SOURCE 7

International efforts to help poor women to adapt to climate change will fail unless urgent action is taken. A new Action Aid and Institute for Development Studies report urges governments to give women an equal say in how funds given to poor countries to help them adapt to climate change, are managed and spent.

“Women are at the frontline of climate change because they have fewer means to be able to adapt and prepare for extreme weather conditions made worse by climate change,” says Farah Kabir, country director of ActionAid Bangladesh

On the climate change stage, several groups are placing a spotlight on women.

Representatives from these organizations, which include the Women’s Environment

Development Organization and The World Conservation Union, say women’s

economic, social and cultural roles put them at a disadvantage when facing the

threats of climate change.

Women in developing countries are “the world’s principal food producers,” according

to the Food and Agriculture Organization, which leads international efforts to defeat

hunger. Women are also largely responsible for securing water and energy for

cooking and heating.

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With an increase in droughts, floods, desertification and erosion – possible impacts

of global warming – women will have to work harder to secure these vital resources,

say experts on women’s issues. As a consequence, they would have less time to

care for their families or get an education.

6. Woman Power (English)

1. Write a debate either for or against (350 words) on: Women in India have broken the glass ceiling. 2. Collect data regarding women’s education through uniform questionnaires/ interviews with your Grand Parents, Parents, Domestic helpers.

Based on your findings write an article on: The Importance of Educating Girls.

Subject wise homework

ECONOMICS

1. Maintain a file of contemporary national and international economic

developments. (Source :Newspapers –Economic Times; Financial Express The

Economist; any relevant business journal )

2. Read two analytical articles from the latest issues of “The Economist “(available

online), or any newspaper editorial and write a brief summary for a Class

discussion.

BUSINESS STUDIES

Visit a popular business around you and collect the following information for it and

compile it in a form of a project:

1. What kind of activity it is doing –primary, secondary or tertiary. 2. What form of business organization is it-e.g. sole trader……? 3. What are its objectives? 4. What legal formalities they had to undergo before starting the business. 5. Draw an organization chart for them 6. Explain concepts of span of control, delegation and chain of command from it. 7. Explain methods of communication they are using in their organization 8. Explain the functions of various departments/ managers.

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ACCOUNTING

1. For the same company collect samples of Ledger, Balance sheet, Cash Book, Petty Cask Book, Invoice, Debit Note, Credit Note and statement of account.

PHYSICS

1 (a) Design a simple machine (or combination of machines) from the materials

available at home (or scrap) so that it can be used in our day to day life.

(b) Create a document which should include the principle, materials required,

procedure and precautionary measures taken to design that machine.

CHEMISTRY

FUN TIME:

Use your creativity after enjoying this humorous video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbfW_CMMe48

Cartoon making

"Chemistry–our life, our future."

Draw a cartoon with text in English which conveys the meaning intended with clarity

and good humour. However, only submissions pertaining to chemistry principles will

be accepted.

The cartoon must be an original work and not contain any copyrighted material.

The five best will be uploaded on Think Quest

STUDY TIME

Make a chart and write all possible chemical formulae and names of compounds

using the following Cations and Anions.

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LANGUAGES:

SPANISH

1. My Role Model : Pick up a personality from any field and discuss her contribution to the society. Discuss why she is your role model.

2. Make a poster on the role a woman plays in any society. 3. Grammar drills from summer booklet.

GERMAN

1. My Role Model : Pick up a personality from any field and discuss her contribution to the society. Discuss why is she your role model.

2. Make a poster on the role a woman plays in any society.

FRENCH

Faites un depliant sur la ville de Delhi. Illustrez avec de belles images. Regardez unite 1, Tricolore, pour secours.

"Pensez a l'environnement". Ecrivez un article. Parles de differentes formes de pollution, et donnez des suggestions pour ameliorer la situation. Illustrez avec des images. Utilisez unite 2, Tricolore pour secours.

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HINDI

Additional Homework English:

1. Learn the poem - Further Bank by Rabindra Nath Tagore

2. Watch the movie KABULIWALA / read the story KABULIWALA 3. Write an article in about 250 words on: India and Afghanistan- then and

now a. the human and emotional bond between the common people of

India and Afghanistan b. Analyse how and why such ties have changed from the times of

Tagore to the present day