Tag: Sexual Harassment
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Sexual Harassment in Virtual Reality: Is it real?
Imagine you are in a virtual reality archery game. Your avatar is a simple disembodied floating helmet with two hands clutching a bow. While you skillfully mow down a wave of the undead, another player BigBro442 identifies you as female by your voice and before you know it, he is making overt gestures in the […]
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Creating a Safe Work Environment –Best Practices to Deal with Sexual Harassment at Workplace
“Giving women equal rights and entire nations are more stable and secure. Deny women equal rights, and the instability of nation is certain.” -HILLARY CLINTON INTRODUCTION The very Indian Constitution provides right to equality to both women and men. Women have equal right to choose any profession and area of work or business activity. […]
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Pride and Dignity: Women at workplace
In the era of globalization, modernization, and rationalization, one thing which is most applauded about is women empowerment. International leaders, celebrities, politicians, youth, and even the laymen talk about the blurring gap between men and women and uplifting women, not only socially but politically as well as economically. But the irony is, it is all […]
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Online sexual harassment
In India, irrespective of whether we live in the urban or the rural area, one of the things that remains a constant is misogyny. We face misogyny from our births till the end of our lives, right from female infanticide to child marriages and dowry deaths; from sexual harassment at workplace to marital rape and eve […]
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Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2013: An Overview and Suggestions
This article has been written by Mohini Singla. Mohini is currently a student in Army Institute of Law, Mohali. The need for Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act was talked about for the first time after the case of Bhanwari Devi. After this case Vishaka guidelines were framed in 1997. These guidelines in 2013 […]
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