Kurup, Anitha and Haricharan, Smriti and Mancheri, Nabeel A and Sunder, Sumithra and Kumar, Namitha A
(2013)
Policy Against Sexual Harassment at the Workplace: Guidelines for National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India.
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NIAS.
| Abstract: |
Sexual Harassment at the Workplace (SHW) has remained one of
the central concerns of the women’s movement in India since the
early-’80s. Before 1997, women experiencing SHW had to lodge a
complaint under Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code that deals with
the ‘criminal assault of women to outrage women’s modesty’, and
Section 509 that punishes individual/individuals for using a ‘word,
gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman’. These
sections left the interpretation of ‘outraging women’s modesty’ to the
discretion of the police officer/s. In 1997, the Supreme Court passed
a landmark judgment in the Vishakha case laying down guidelines
to be followed by establishments in dealing with complaints about
sexual harassment. THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF WOMEN
AT THE WORKPLACE (PREVENTION, PROHIBITION AND
REDRESSAL) ACT was passed in April 2013. |
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| Subjects: |
NIAS Resources > NIAS Policy Documents
Doctoral Programme > PhD Scholar Publications |
| Date Deposited: |
06 Oct 2017 10:42 |
| Last Modified: |
05 Jun 2021 17:48 |
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