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A Study On “Effectiveness Of Preventive Measures Of Sexual Harassment Policies At It And Ites Sectors”, Bengaluru

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SUMA S 1, Dr. N. Sandhya

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In India sexual harassment at workplace is one of the most common crimes against women and is also seen as unconstitutional invading on the fundamental rights of women. Occasionally women raise their voices against such discrimination, but more often than not it is buried with time. The necessity for preventing such injustice and suitably dealing with such cases, The Sexual Harassment Act, 2013 was brought into effect. Sexual harassment is a recurring problem around the globe. Different nations have taken measures to deal with the consequences of such a problem. Continuous development of policies is observed. Nations or companies are dealing with the topic by either reacting or pro-acting to the salient situations. The main objective of this chapter is to highlight the methodology used in order to state the hypotheses generated from the objectives of the study. The research design including the measurement of research variables, the questionnaire design, the sampling procedure, data collection and techniques of analysis used for the purpose of testing the research hypotheses is elaborately considered in this chapter 1.Introduction Piotrowski (1998) before 1970 there was no term like ‘sexual harassment’ used in the literature or in any published or unpublished media. It was only in late 1970s that first time the term ‘sexual harassment’ was used and got its place as one of rising issue in the world. This concept came into existence in the late 1970s, earlier it was a part of work life but never get noticed and no one has ever raised the voice against it. Cornell University first time took step to raise the issue of sexual harassment by conducting a session on ‘Women and Work’. The purpose of this session was to make people aware about their safety at work place. Farley (1978) harassment of women was prevailing in the society from very beginning; women employees have to leave their job or were fired from the job due to the uncomfortable behavior of the male employees. Women were facing harassment almost at every walk of life but our society is male ruled and consequently nobody has observed or raised the problem of sexual harassment at workplace. Nemy (1975) the trouble of sexual harassment turned into now no longer publicly mentioned however the idea of sexual harassment turned into first time publicized during the testimony of (Farley, 1978) associated with ‘Women and work’. The difficulty of sexual harassment turned into raised with The amative to make girls conscious that they have to protest and withstand any act that comes below this class and they have to have rights to take steps in opposition to such issues via a few felony manner which can bind both the organization and the harasser.

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