Analysis on Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace

IASET Publications, 2022

Sexual Harassment at workplace is not only an evil against women but also an unconstitutional act against the females. It leads to the way of violence, torture and harassment. An effort has been made to emphasis on the significance and relevance of the Act made for the protection of women at their respective workplaces. This Act plays a major role in proactively ensuring the protection of all women who are working. This paper also analyse the role and responsibility of judiciary in playing the major role in the actual implementation of the concerned law.

International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology , 2017

Sexual Harassment is a topic of interest and an area of concern to the present era. The sexual harassment results in violation of the basic fundamental rights of women especially right to equality under article 14 & 15 of the Indian constitution and her right to life and to live with dignity under article 21 of the constitution. The present study provides an intensive background of sexual harassment of women in India. The origin of the sexual harassment has been taken from Bhanwari Devi case and an account of Vishaka and Ors. v/s Union of India 1997 judgment is also mentioned in the current study. The current research paper tries to highlight the causes that tend to spontaneous increase in sexual harassment cases from different time perspectives. One of the prominent causes which are highlighted in the present research paper include the male dominated organizational setup i.e. much of the harassment which women face at the workplace isn't "sexual" in content or design but the motive behind this is to show the domination of male folk, inferior job position where women usually wield less hierarchical power in an organizations and men have more sexual harassment serves as one method of the powerful asserting control over the powerless, misperceptions about the friendly nature of a women in an organization by men colleagues and who began to harass those women who are quite friendly in nature and women with higher academic profile and lesser job opportunity when they began their journey to find a job in an organization may it be an educational institute or other private or government sector they are harassed and advanced by sexual favours by the person in charges and for that they are assured to be offered a job and consequently all these causes leads to sexual harassment of women. Sexual harassment has shown a steady increase from last decade to the present scenario with 29.20% cases registered in the year 2015 and which resulted in violation of basic immunities of women at workplace. The data for the present study was elicited from both primary and secondary sources, analysis were done by using particular research method and tool. The results from this research however indicate that in India sexual harassment is still prevalent in the workplace despite attempts to eradicate it. Finally the current study recommends that the need of hour is to take a close look over the issue and provide the preventive measures that could better assess the situation.

International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research

One of the main issues our women currently face in all spheres of life is sexual harassment. We seldom ever crosses all are making every effort to address the rising issue. One of those issues that negatively impacts women participation in economic and social growth is sexual harassment. Women though centuries have been perceived to be, and therefore are socially conditioned from an early age to be subordinate to men. Sexual harassment may take diverse and varied forms. Though sexual harassment has been a fact of life since humans first inhabited the earth, it has been recently acknowledged to be a serious and a real problem particularly at the place of work. The harassment is by co-workers and supervisors. Whereas sexual harassment results in the violation of the fundamental rights of a women to equality under articles 14 and 15 of the constitution of India and her right to life and to live with dignity under article 21 of the constitution and right to practice any profession or to...

isara solutions, 2020

Sexual orientation equality is fundamental human right. Sexual harassment brings about violation of the fundamental privileges of a Woman. Rights are ensured by Article 14, Article 15 and Article 21 of the Constitution of India as Right to balance and Right to life. Radical woman's liberation sees that patriarchy, private circle, monetary reliance, sexuality and woman's organic features are the primary driver for abuse of women. Globalization has acquired an extreme change the status of women around the world. Be that as it may, with the bigger inundation of women in the standard workforce of India, sexual harassment at workplace has accepted greater measurements. Presently the status of women are changing step by step offering ascend to an advancement where they guarantee their meaningful rights, for example, participation in every single circle of life overcoming any barrier between their battle and rights in this manner, increasing financial freedom as a result of the arrangement of battle. By this paper the research has attempted to delineate the release of obligations of the business and their obligations as gave in Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013.

Women, a girl, a wife, a mother, a grandmother, overall girl could be a key of a family. World will never be complete without a girl. Law is the set of rules implemented to govern the behavior of individuals. From the start of this world women is treated as a weaker section of the society frequently are the victims of the crimes like rape, eve teasing, feminine infanticide, dowry, domestic violence, child marriage and acid throwing. India is facing the matter of accelerating range of cases of sexual harassment at the workplace despite the actual fact that there are various laws to curb the menace. Irrefutably, it hampers women’s constitutional and fundamental rights to equality, justice and dignity. The paper begins with shaping the idea of sexual harassment then looks into the assorted aspects allied to the current brutal issue. In addition to it, the issues with the measures taken are mentioned to clarify the status of sexual harassment in Indian context and the way organizations can facilitate in safeguarding the dignity of their women employees. The study indicates that the problem of sexual harassment at the workplace is at an appalling stage and needs an immediate attention by the organizations moreover from government. The work of activists, human rights mechanisms and States has been crucial in guaranteeing that the human rights framework has developed and adjusted to summarize the gender specific dimensions of human rights violations to safeguard women in a better approach. Further, few recommendations also are projected to tackle the problem of sexual harassment of women in Indian organizations

Exactly a year after the barbaric rape on 16 th December 2012, the discourse on women's rights has not only persisted, it has acquired new shades, more nuances and a stronger, more assertive tone. Be it of Suzette Jordan, a single mother of two children who was gang raped in Calcutta, but refused to be referred to as the 'Park Street rape victim' and demanded she be identified by her real name, even though the law prohibits anyone from naming a rape victim; of the law intern who plucked up the courage to blog about retired Supreme Court judge A.K.

Indian Journal of Law and Legal Research, UGC Approved Journal ISSN: 2582-8878 , 2022

In today's world, sexual harassment is a major source of concern. Sexual harassment infringes on women's fundamental rights, particularly the right to equality enshrined in Articles 14 and 15 of the Indian Constitution, as well as the right to life and a dignified existence enshrined in Article 21.The Indian Constitution's Preamble promises that all citizens will have "equality of status and opportunity. The constitutionally protected fundamental rights support the elimination of sexual harassment at the workplace. The Supreme Court has undoubtedly taken a courageous step in protecting women's rights by establishing rules for an issue that had not received adequate attention until 1997, after decades of independence. The origin of sexual harassment has been taken from the Bhanwari Devi case and an account of the Vishaka and Ors. v. Union of India, 1997 judgment, which highlight the causes that tend to spontaneously increase in sexual harassment cases from various time perspectives. The Court's intervention in cases involving sexual harassment of women paints a different picture. It demonstrates that courts have recognized their role in societal change and have effectively exercised their powers for the greater good. Sexual harassment not only harms a woman's physical appearance, but it also harms her emotional and mental growth.

International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences, 2018

This study aims to understand the prevalence of sexual harassment at workplace in public and private sectors in selected regions of National Capital Region of Delhi, India. A comparison between the two sectors will focus on the awareness about the existing laws, resistance to sexual harassment at workplace and also to identify the common factors playing crucial role in cases of sexual harassment. Due to time and money constraints the study is conducted with 100 samples (50 from public and 50 from private sector) and it does not aim for generalization, but, it intends to collaborate legal viewpoint on sexual harassment at workplace with respondents’ outlook to tackle this issue. ________________________________________________________________________

Atrocities against women are on the rise these days. Women are the victims. They face the shock and thereafter adjust themselves in the society. What we see is that violence against women is caused by structural situations and individual characteristics as well developed by non-commitment to internalized norms. In our society i.e. Indian society women have been victims of ill-treatment, humiliation, torture and exploitation. Although, it is a fact that the incidence of violence by men towards females is not identical in all groups and communities and that moral and social beliefs and family arrangements

Journal of international women's studies, 2016

Introduction: Defining Sexual Harassment Any act, action or behavior with an underlying sexual connotation done to intimidate or humiliate a victim can be classified as sexual harassment. It may comprise of a single act or a series of them, and there is no relevance attached to the intention of the perpetrator behind such action. (2) Certain common instances of sexual harassment include: leering at a female colleague's body, passing distasteful comments on her character or about the way she dresses, indulging in inappropriate sexual humor in the workplace to the discomfort of female colleagues, sexually suggestive gestures, displaying visual material with sexual content in the form of graffiti, cartoons, pin ups etc, calling up a female colleague late at night or persistently insisting her for lunch or dinner dates thereby making her uncomfortable or any other such verbal or physical conduct. The popular perception that sexual harassment essentially constitutes overt physical ac...