Sexual Exploitation of Women at Workplace

Abstract

The paper analyzes the despondency of womenin a workplace when she has to fight to proveher existence in a gender-biased society on one side of the hand and tormented incidents harassment of woman on the other. Efficacious legislation came up in the year 2013 as"Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal)". Despite coming of this Act, women are continuously subjected to sexual harassment at the workplace due to some major shortcomings of this Act which has been rightly pointed by many scholars and jurists. The paper also throws light over the legislative measures which have been taken and laid downto establish a more equitable platform of working place for women. discrimination. I. INTRODUCTION The Sexual harassment at workplace against women remains a stern example of sexual exploitation, and the incidents of sexual abuse and harassment must not in any case be tolerated as it leads to compromising with the principle of `Righ to Equality' of the women by pointing at the dignity and well-being of the woman.2 The keyword 'sexual harassment' might be a new terminology for many people in India but undesirable and unpalatable actions of a sexual character, otherwise known as "eve-teasing," is not a brand new occurrence in India, it is, in fact, has become part and parcel of women's life. In order to get familiar with the grievances of woman going through sexual harassment we all must focus our attention towards suffering of these women as no one can explain the sufferings better than the women who have actually gone through it. Whenever a question is asked as to "what sort of disturbing thoughts come in your mind whenever you go through the memory of sexual harassment in past ", they mentioned the term `uncaring' it means that none of them got enough support at that time. Whenever any incident of sexual 1 Author is a student at Amity Law School, Noida, India 2An. L.O., Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (articles 19, 22 and 35 of the Constitution): General Report and observations concerning particular countries, Report III (Part 1A),91st Session of the International Labour Conference, Geneva, 2003, page 463. 2020. International Journal of Integrated Law Review