Key Points
Its time to revisit the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) or POSH Act the legislation is falling short in keeping harassment at the workplace in check...
She says she has been sexually harassed to the very limit, and cautioned women from using this redressal mechanism, which is torturous...
The Act, designed to safeguard womens safety in the workplace, desperately needs an overhaul.Women are still struggling to find a safe working environment, and more importantly a just mechanism to raise complaints..
The fact that Indias celebrated wrestlers had to sit at New Delhis Jantar Mantar for their sexual harassment complaints against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh to be heard is telling..
In 2021, former Minister of Women and Child Development Smriti Irani told Parliament that out of 36 new complaints the government had received on SHe-Box, only four were related to harassment at the workplace...
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