MUSKAN GUPTA:- ARE WOMEN SAFE AT THEIR WORKPLACE

OR NOT????? HOW DOES IT CREATE A DEVELOPMENT????

Is being a girl a punishment? Is being a girl means losing her

own self respect and still working for her family, for others?

Women are vulnerable to sexual harassment because they

more often lack power and often work in an insecure positions.
In India the concern of sexual harassment of women at
work place is increasing. Every other day instance of
sexual harassment pops up. Sexual harassment is intimidation,
bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or
inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.

Sexual harassment can be verbal (comments about your body,

spreading sexual rumors, sexual remarks or accusations, dirty
jokes or stories), physical (grabbing, rubbing, flashing or
mooning, touching, pinching in a sexual way, sexual assault) or
visual (display of naked pictures or sex-related objects, obscene
gestures).
 Sexual harassment can happen to girls and boys both but the
victims of sexual harassment are mostly girls/women. A survey
by the Indian National Bar Association (INBA) conducted
earlier this year, found that of the 6,047 participants (both male
and female), 38% said they’d faced harassment at the
workplace. Of these, 69% did not complain about it. It indicates
that it is not safe for girls to move out of their houses. They are
harassed everywhere might be it an educational institute or
workplace. Even age is not a concern. Either a little school
going girl or a middle aged lady all are same in the eyes of
harassers. Harassers are just like hungry beasts who just want a
prey to satisfy their hunger.
Our today’s topic of discussion is about the harassment done to
women at workplaces which makes them unsafe all around.

:- MUSKAN GUPTA (X-B)

“According to the U.S. Department of Labor, some 60 to 90% of
women in the WORLD experience some form of sexual harassment
during their academic or work lives. ”

I would like to give some real life examples;

1. ) In 2002, Phaneesh Murthy, a director with Infosys and one of the software
major’s highest-paid employees then, quit following sexual harassment
allegations made by his executive secretary. Murthy and Reka Maximovitch,
the complainant, reached an out-of-court settlement, with the latter being paid
$3 million. During his next stint at iGate, another software services firm,
he was again accused of sexual harassment. In 2013, a junior employee, with
whom he allegedly had an affair in the US, sued him for charges of sexual
harassment. iGate removed Murthy as CEO and president as he had not
reported his relationship with the said employee. However, the
company denied finding any instances of sexual misconduct.
2. In 2012, an employee working at a restaurant at the Indira Gandhi
International Airport, New Delhi, filed a case against a senior Air India official,
accusing him of sexually harassing her. The employee worked with a firm to
which Air India had outsourced work.

The woman said the official showed her porn clips, nude pictures, and made
physical advances. While the police launched a probe, the woman said her
complaint to an assistant general manager at Air India was ignored.

There are many more cases like this like Wipro case in 2016,AK Ganguly in
2013

Now, in this case I would like ask how a women can feel safe in
this this of environment??

Although there are many laws in India for women like section
294, sec 509, The POSH Act is the Prevention of Sexual
Harassment at the Workplace Act etc. But no law is that strong
to protect women

Hence, ending my words I would like to express that there cant

be any development in field of work until we stop women from
daily life harassment and allow them to work safely.

Thank you!

:- MUSKAN GUPTA (X-B)

:- MUSKAN GUPTA (X-B)