Name: Sushila Chauhan
Country: India

Year: 2017
Volume: Volume-2, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 9-18

Sexual harassment of women at workplace discourages women's participation in work and adversely affects their performance. It is coercive, cruel and distractive behaviour against the women. Due to societal reasons most of the cases go unreported. The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2013 recognizes that every woman has a right to work with dignity and sexual harassment is violation of fundamental right of working women. This Act is a very positive step for the protection of women from sexual harassment at work place. But even after passing of the Act there are so many high profile cases of sexual harassment happens in India. Some cases have been reported from the sections upon which rest a great part of the moral responsibility to ensure that women are safe at their work place. Hence, the present research paper deals with the issues and concerns which are required for prevention of sexual harassment of women at workplace.
Key words: Women, sexual harassment, Act, India, workplace.