NCERT Solutions for Class 7 Social Science Civics Chapter 4: Growing up as Boys and Girls

The fourth chapter uses two case studies rooted in different contexts of time and place to showcase the differences in girls and boys' social upbringing. This enables students to experience and understand that socialisation has no uniformity; it changes continuously over time as per the determined choice of action. Addressing that societies assign different values to the roles men and women play, their work becomes a basis of discrimination.

Housework, primarily done by women, is often not considered 'work 'and ends up being invisible and devalued. Being considered a boy or a girl in society is an existential part of one's identity. The cultures and traditions of the society we grow up in, teach us what kind of behaviour is acceptable for girls and boys, defining what they can or cannot do. People often grow up thinking that these things are constant everywhere. It is an important question that does all societies look at boys and girls in the same way? The chapter will try and answer this question.

The students will also look at how society's different roles to boys and girls initiate them for their future as men and women. This chapter will also examine how inequalities between men and women emerge in the area of work.