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Leave of ninety days, for women who have filed complaints of sexual harassment in government offices. A big relief for victims and women in general.
Leave of ninety days now for women who have filed complaints of sexual harassment in government offices. A big relief for female victims.
Who said working women enjoy greater dignity than their peers? There are predators working at every level who slog day and night in order to jeopardize a woman’s sense of security and independence!
Media is replete with harrowing tales of women who get molested in work places. Sexual harassment in work places is an age old phenomenon.
Showing pornography, demand or request for sexual favours, sexually coloured remarks are all forms of sexual harassment that women go through. The government has, however, taken a concrete step by granting a paid leave of three months during the pendency of enquiry.
This will ensure that the victim doesn’t get harassed or threatened by the accused to take back the case or humiliate them further which makes their lives more difficult.
It will also come as a relief to the victims who undergo a lot of trauma while working in the office in the presence of the accused. Moreover, three months of paid leave will also give victims the required time to work on any psychological scars that they may have developed during the difficult phase.
Support from family and friends is crucial to help the victim get back to normal life and regain the confidence lost. Apart from the fact that they will get a lot of time to recuperate emotionally, this apposite measure taken by the government will help ensure that women speak about this issue openly without worrying too much about the financial loss they will have to incur.
While the government has done a really appreciable job, the onus of helping the victim regain her confidence and return to work lies on the colleagues. Looking down upon the victim, gossiping about her or naming the accused in front of the victim can add to her woes. She shouldn’t be made to feel guilty of voicing her opinion against an issue that was affecting her a lot. After all, three months of paid leave doesn’t help if she is sniggered at when she returns to work.
Redressal mechanisms should be initiated in all the workplaces which employ people of both the genders as per the guidelines. They can play a monumental role in making women aware of the various rights they have at workplaces and how to get due justice if they are harassed.
A lot needs to be done in the area of women safety at workplaces so that more and more women join the workforce and make a living without fear.
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My house-help asked excitedly, “I am going for wedding. Can you let me wear your red & black saree? To be honest I was stumped for a moment; I didn’t know what to say but I still said yes.
I lent a gorgeous saree to my house-help for a wedding in her family. Soon I stated getting questions if I would wear that saree again or if I was okay to be seen wearing the same saree my house-help was wearing?
We are all so conditioned to give our used clothes to our house-helps but are we okay to wear the clothes they were wearing?
A few days ago she came excitedly to me, “I am going for a family wedding. I want to wear your red & black saree, Ill wash and give it to you after the function. Please can you let me wear it?”
Beauty is a very clever, very evil capitalist tool. It traps those who have it into hanging on to it for dear life and those who don't into mutilating, torturing themselves to achieve the unachievable.
I recently wrote a piece about MP Shashi Tharoor’s tweet in which he had shared a pic with six women parliamentarians tagging them and saying “Who says the Lok Sabha isn’t an attractive place to work?”
There was a rash of comments on the post shared on Instagram, which ranged from “chill, it’s just a compliment” and “stop overthinking compliments”, to (worried) men lamenting about “these feminazi”.
Here’s my answer to all those comments.
Harassed by her seniors in ways that could have become dangerous had she not been alert, IAS officer Rani Nagar resigns, publicly posting about her ordeal.
Harassed by her seniors in ways that could have become dangerous had she not been alert to it, IAS officer Rani Nagar resigns, publicly posting about her ordeal.
IAS Rani Nagar has created a storm ever since she posted her resignation as the Additional Director, Social Justice and Empowerment on the grounds of harassment and ‘personal safety on government duty’ on her Facebook page.
She has levied some serious harassment charges against her seniors. She has also posted a video on 17th of April saying that her, as well as her sister’s life is in danger, and her senior will be responsible if anything happens to them. She has already filled a complaint in the court against her senior Sunil K Gulati and members of Chandigarh Police.
Sexual harassment at the workplace in India is more common than you think. Here are 9 Myths and Facts you should absolutely know about.
Let us face it, ladies! Sexual harassment at the workplace could happen to any of us.
Supreme Court Judges have been accused of it by their interns, while a High Court Judge has been a victim. Beauty queen, Sushmita Sen, created a media storm when she accused the CEO of Coca Cola of it. Journalists have been victims and have spoken out about it.