Sexual Harassment At Work Essay

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SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT WORKPLACE
INTRODUCTION:-
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
Sexual harassment is any sexually oriented practice that endangers an individual’s continued employment, negatively affects his or her work performance or undermines his or her sense of personal dignity.
Sexual Harassment can manifest itself both physically and psychologically. In it’s milder form it can involve verbal innuendo and inappropriate affectionate gestures. It can however, escalate to extreme behavior amounting to attempted rape and rape. Physically the recipient may be the victim of pinching, grabbing, hugging, patting, leering, brushing against, and touching. Psychological harassment can involve a relentless proposal of physical intimacy, beginning with subtle hints …show more content…

Sexually-oriented remark can be broadly explained as passing a remark which explains the physic of a women or about her figure or body or passing a remark such as asking for a sexual favour.
 Showing pornography.
Showing porn in the form of picture or a video can be considered under this point.
 Any other unwelcome physical, verbal or non-verbal conduct of sexual nature.

Where any of these acts are committed in circumstances under which the victim of such conduct has a reasonable apprehension that in relation to the victim’s employment or work (whether she is drawing salary, or honorarium or voluntary service, whether in Government, public or private enterprise), such conduct can be humiliating and may constitute a health and safety problem, it amounts to sexual harassment in the workplace.

An act of sexual harassment is a violation of the right to privacy of a woman, and therefore of the right to personal liberty and life under Article 21.

VISHAKHA GIUDLINES

The Vishaka Guidelines were a situated of procedural rules for utilization in India in instances of inappropriate behavior. They were proclaimed by the Indian Supreme Court in 1997 and were superseded in 2013 by The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act,

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