Combatting Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace


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Arpita Sahu

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2

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3

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More and more women are taking up salaried jobs but old attitudes remain the same. It is theinstitutional process that should guarantee a safe workplace for women, havent caught up yet.Though the number of women in workforce has been rising but there is little or no change in themindset of the community. The risk of women, being victims of sexual harassment is endless. Itneed to be controlled and appropriate action in such cases is absolutely essential. After all rightto life means life with dignity. Gender equality includes protection from sexual harassment andright to work with dignity. So every step taken in this direction, is a definite move towardscivilization and refinement of the Society.Women constitute about one half of the global population, but at the work place they are placedat various disadvantageous positions due gender difference and bias. Keeping in view traditionboundsociety, our Constitution has made number of safeguards for protecting the rights andstatus of women and one such provision in this direction is bring the Sexual Harassment ofWomen at Workplace Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal Act, 2013 into the statute book. Arpita Sahu "Combatting Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-3 , April 2018, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd12745.pdf Paper URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/other/12745/combatting-sexual-harassment-of-women-at-workplace/arpita-sahu

Keyword :

Sexual Harassment, Constitution of India, Sexual Harassment Of Women at Workplace, gender equality
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