Objectification Over Caliber: Narcissism And Sexual Harassment Of Women At Work
- IJLLR Journal
- Mar 27
- 2 min read
Deeksha Singh, LLM (Corporate Law), Galgotias University
ABSTRACT
The question of sexual harassment in the workplace is not new in India or the entire world regardless of the availability of policies and laws regarding the harboring of the question. It is not just a legal matter, but a threat that is mostly encountered by the female gender, which happens when a woman is discriminated against or even demanded to have sexual favors at the workplace, particularly by an individual in power. These are practices that actually render a workplace more unfavorable and unfriendly to women. Such traditions are against the very principles of equality, dignity and safety of a woman.
The fight against sexual harassment in the work environment in India gained publicity in 1992 when a case of a Bhanwari Devi was brought to attention and it would later lead to the Supreme Court passing up the Vishaka Guidelines in 1997. This was later given a formalized form in Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act of 2013 which is commonly referred to as the Post Act. The main objective of this act is to ensure the women workplace is safer by enacting the establishment of internal committees to receive their complaints and awareness programs, with less consideration of male or gender-diverse victims. It tries to examine the contemporary manifestations of gender neutral workplace harassment with a specific emphasis on why the phenomenon of the harassment of the harassed did not disappear despite the ineffective harassment policies. It evaluates the historic preconditions of workplace harassment, the various theoretical models that surround it, the consequences of the phenomenon of silence victims in the realms of the existing justice sources, as well as the limitations and obstacles that contribute towards the occurrence of the phenomenon of workplace harassment.
