Also known as the POSH Act 2013, the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition, and Redressal) Act is a legislative act formulated to provide protection against sexual harassment of women at workplace and for the prevention and redressal of complaints of sexual harassment and matters connected with violation of fundamental rights of women to equality under Articles 14 and 15 of the Consitution of India, and her right to life and dignity under Article 21 of the Constitution of India.
Published in Chapter:
Reckoning With #MeToo and the Aftermath: Perception of Workplace Harassment, Sexism, and the #MeToo Movement Among Journalists in India
Prabhjot Kaur Sohal (Panjab University, India)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6686-2.ch007
Abstract
In 2017, following the #MeToo movement stirred by the public outing of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, the safety of women at the workplace became a prime agenda for international news media. Although far from being truly inclusive, the #MeToo movement rapidly spread to other parts of the world. Women of different nationalities, backgrounds, and race shared their stories of abuse and survival using the #MeToo hashtag and its variants. In 2018, women within the news media industry in India joined the movement and called out prominent editors, filmmakers, and artists on social media for perpetrating and abetting acts of sexual harassment and abuse against them. As an immediate result, several accused were made to resign from their organizations and dropped from prestigious public posts. However, a backlash to the movement followed soon after, most evidently in the form of victim-shaming and defamation lawsuits against women. Based on the theory of epistemic advantage, the study explores the perception of sexual harassment among journalists in India using in-depth interviews.