Akshat Meharia, Week 8

As portrayed in the article S"and the law" by Ratna Kapoor, there is a huge amount of torture and discrimination women have to face in workplaces, even today, because of the sexual harrasment that takes place against woken. It not only makes the woken unsafe, byt it affects their efficiency of work fur to deterrence of being a victim to the sexual harrasment. As the writer correctky observes, improvements came when the court passed it's judgement in the case of Vishaka v. State of Rajasthan, in whivh the ciurt laid many guidelines as to how it is the duty of the employer to take adequate steps to prevent sexyal harrasment in workplace, and reasonable penalty should be charged by the offender, and pubished in a feasible manner. Women shoukd not be faving discrimination of any kind for getting a job or a promotion. Before the judgement the scope of sexual harrasment was broad in such a way and the defination is so vague, that the law is being used to reinforce the sexual conduct on the boundaries of traditional sexual behaviour without necessarily remedying woman's case of sexual harrasment. The writer is not arguing against sexual harrasment, it is considered a serious problem affecting the women working furiously across the social spectrum, and this Vishaka judgement marks an important frlorst step towards improvement of the conditions of women in the work places, with reduces risks of sexual harrasment.