AI-generated practice question — model-generated for extra practice, not a previous-year CBSE board question.
(A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
Gender division is not based on biology but on social expectations and stereotypes. Boys and girls are brought up to believe women's main responsibility is housework and childcare — this socially constructed belief directly explains why gender division is not natural but imposed.
Source: Chapter 3 (Gender and Politics), Sexual Division of Labour
R directly explains A because the social upbringing that assigns domestic roles to women is the very mechanism through which social expectations and stereotypes (mentioned in A) are created and sustained. Examiners expect you to identify this causal link. Option (B) would apply only if R were a separate true fact that did not explain A — but here it does.