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Read the following passage and choose the answer that is closest to each of the questions that are based on the passage.

The perennial debate over gender differences threatens to remain inconclusive. Stereotypes pertaining to male superiority and female submissiveness could be traced to earlier ages where assigned roles were needed as survival measures. But, can we today see a swing away from these stereotypes, or have they established a stranglehold on our perceptions? In this gendered world, we continue to live with notions that one's gender determines one's skills and preferences, from toys and colours to career choices. So the girl child will be presented with a Barbie doll, while the boy child will receive a Lego set.

Does that mean that our brains are different? This myth has been exploded by a British professor of cognitive neuroimaging. Her research attempts to establish how these stereotypes mould our ideas of ourselves. She examines how science has been misinterpreted or misused to ask the wrong questions, instead of challenging the status quo. She urges us to move beyond a binary view of people's brains and instead to see these as highly individualised, profoundly adaptable, and full of unbounded potential. Her conclusive findings establish that no brain differences can be found that are solely gender related. In other words, modern neuroscientists have identified no decisive category-defining differences between the brains of men and women.

As a result of these findings we owe it to ourselves to dump the myths and look at ourselves afresh. We need to recognise that the male and female brain debate is a distraction, besides being based on inaccuracies. It is possibly harmful too, because it can be used as a hook to justify saying there is no point in girls doing science because they do not have a science brain; or compelling boys to opt for science because their brains are shaped for that subject. It can also condemn boys for being emotional, as this is seen as a feminine trait. And, most dangerous of all, to proclaim that boys, not girls, are meant to lead.

Question 8 : By referring to the world as "gendered' the writer wants to convey that

1. gender differences can be detected right from childhood.
2. society continues to be fixated on gender stereotypes.
3. one's gender is bound to determine one's abilities.
4. the debate on gender differences will never be resolved.

Explanatory Answer

Option A
The author's views are contrary to those mentioned in Option A. By "early ages", she refers to ancient times, and not the age as a number in its literal sense. So, option A can be eliminated.

Option B
This, by far, seems to be the best possible option. We will look at the other options and come back to this later.

Option C
The author, with evidence from research on cognitive neuroimaging, says exactly the opposite. "No brain differences can be found that are solely gender-related" from the passage and "gender is bound to determine" in the option do not go well. "Bound to" is too strong a term that opposes the author's view point. So, option C can be eliminated.

Option D
The passage does not state the issues can never be resolved. In fact, there are statements that point the work that needs to be done. So, option D can be eliminated.

This leaves us with only option B, which is eventually the right answer.

The question is "By referring to the world as "gendered' the writer wants to convey that"

Hence, the answer is society continues to be fixated on gender stereotypes.

Choice B is the correct answer