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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Do you think that the formal workspaces are free of gender bias? Argue your case.

  • UPSC 2025
  • Works and Economic Life

Formal workplaces promise universalism: contracts, merit and legal equality. Yet bias does not disappear with formality. It moves from open exclusion into organisational structure, culture and time norms. Formal workspaces are therefore not free of gender bias, though that bias is less visible and more contested than before.

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  • Bias built into organisations
  • The counter-case
  • Weighing the case
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