In a day and age when people are talking about women empowerment and gender equality, an excerpt from a class 10 textbook in Chhattisgarh has come to light which claims that working women are the cause of rising unemployment.
The textbook published by Chhattisgarh Board of Secondary Education states that the percentage of unemployment after Independence has increased because women have started working in all sectors.
A teacher in the Jashpur district has filed a petition in the state women's commission against the same. The commission has vowed to take the matter up with Chief Minister Raman Singh.
There have been many incidents of misrepresentation of facts in the textbooks in the past. In 2014, there was outrage in West Bengal after school text books labelled revolutionary freedom fighters as 'terrorists'. The history textbooks for Class 8 describe the activities of freedom fighters like Khudiram Bose, Jatindranath Mukherjee and Prafulla Chaki as 'extremism and terrorism'.
In 2013, the Maharashtra government had ordered the withdrawal of Class X geography textbooks that excluded Arunachal Pradesh from the map of India.
In 2012, textbook in a CBSE school had claimed that non-vegetarians lie, cheat and commit crimes.
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