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If you are a working woman in any capacity as given under, you will be protected from being subjected to sexual harassment at the workplace no matter the terms or conditions of employment, where they are employed or if they are simply visiting a place of work11.
The law currently only recognizes women as possible victims of sexual harassment1. Men who face sexual harassment at work by either a woman or a man, are not protected in the same way as women. However, this varies according to the policy of the organization, which may cover men as well.
Women have legal protection if they are facing sexual harassment and can be considered any of the following:
- Employee
- A full-time employee
- A part-time employee
- A contractual employee
- Working for compensation
- Any woman in relation to any kind of a workplace, like an office, a household, etc.
- Section 2(a), Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013.[↩]
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What is Sexual Harassment?
Sexual harassment can happen in several ways. Actions such as following a person on the streets or in any public space, peeping into their bedroom, making sexual gestures at them while they are at work or in the classroom, singing lewd songs - all of this is sexual harassment.
