Sexual Exploitation of Women at Workplace

Divpreet Arora
Amity Law School, Noida, India

Volume I – Issue I, 2020

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.

Keywords– sexual harassment, legislature, fundamental rights, work-placework-place, discrimination.

 

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