Direction (Q. No. 26 to 30) : Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follows :

“On very few questions at present are final and unbeatable answers obtainable as to what constitutes equality. With regard to protective legislation, most laws prohibiting occupations for women are obsolete, and are a handicap rather than a safeguard. But, in the matter of night-work laws, such serious issues of health and welfare are at stake that the issue of sex equality pales into insignificance. Regulation of hours and wages is first and foremost a labour issue and concerns women not as a sex, but as forced under bidders in a competitive labour market, where not only women themselves, but their own husband’s brothers, fathers and sons are the sufferers by their competition. Industrial equality between men and women can only be brought about by equal bargaining power to attain which there are two accepted methods : trade union agreements and law. In the former, men have hitherto been more widely successful, while women have gained more through law, because of the feasibility of sucurring laws for women on the basis of their special laws for women on the basis of their special needs, where similar laws would be unattainable by men.”

Question-30 : What can be inferred from the statement women are “Forced under bidders in a competitive labour market”?

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