It's good to find nowadays that more and more women are entering the workforce due to a number of factors like education, economic necessity, changing values of the society towards women's empowerment, gender equality etc that is shaping the workplace today. The increased focus on women and their rights is significantly affecting the women's role in society and their contribution. The traditional role of women limited to household activities is undergoing a sea change. However, a mixture of social, organizational and personal biases has kept the women at workplace at a lower level. There are many issues such as male dominated society, family roles and responsibilities, women's safety, etc. that is keeping women behind at workplace. It's an agreed fact, supported by sufficient evidence that women are spending more hours to the childcare and household activities than men. This greatly disadvantages women at work place. Also there are many issues at the organisational level such as maternity leave, child care leave, sexual harassment, transfer to husband's place of posting, wage gap and glass ceiling, working hours, etc all needs to be administered in framing the human resource policy.
We believe that women are no less than men and are acquiring professional qualifications and occupying important positions in various organisations and diverse fields. An attempt has been made by this paper to create awareness about women's rights and encourage to thoroughly acquainting with the mandatory provisions imposed by The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013. The objective of the paper is to study the legal aspects of sexual harassment of women at work place and women rights in India.
Sexual Harassment, workplace, women rights
