Should the list of Sexual Offenders at Workplaces be Anonymous?

We do not like anonymous lists i.e. lists that purport to name sexual predators compiled by 1 person on the saying of other unnamed persons. We do not like them as we subscribe to old-school journalism viz. attribute, get-the-other-side, verify.
Those lists seem unlikable to us as they legitimize all sorts of lists from ‘shameless women’ to ‘dog haters’...
Here’s what happens to ‘due process’.
The woman complains that her boss has itchy fingers. If she is lucky, her place of work is compliant with the law & has an internal committee (IC) that regularly undergoes training & includes 1 external member.
If she is part of 90% that works in the unorganized sector that’s supposed to be protected by the law – at least on paper – then her tale of woe ends right here.
The IC will summon the woman, as it must. Here’s what some woman recently have been asked – do you drink, do you have a boyfriend, do you go to the Club?
In January 2017, the Indian National Bar Association published 1 of the largest surveys of 6,000 people across India, 78% of whom were women. It found that about 68% of victims avoided reporting workplace sexual harassment.
It’s easy to see why.
In almost every case it’s the woman who ends up quitting her job. Since she stuck her neck out by filing a case, she’s tagged a ‘trouble-maker’ & can be almost certain that she’ll not get another job within the same profession.
Amongst many companies – though MNCs’re better off – there’s blithe ignorance about what constitutes sexual harassment at work. A 2015 EY survey jointly with FICCI found that 46% of companies surveyed didn’t have online training modules for new employees.
When Maneka Gandhi, Minister for Women and Child Development, suggested that companies be required to disclose in their annual reports if they were compliant with the sexual harassment law or not, her own cabinet colleagues told her that it’d ‘require too much disclosure’.
Wonder why women are angry.
In the West, women are standing up and proclaiming against powerful persons. In India, women who speak up are instantly labeled & hounded out of jobs.
Still, wonder what makes us angry?
When powerful men accused of sexual harassment by many women file defamation suits of ₹1 crore against the accusers & her lawyer, there’s a chilling effect.
When numerous surveys point out that women don’t report sexual harassment out of fear of victimization & lack of confidence in the redressal mechanisms & companies do nothing to change the toxic masculinity that infects their places of work…



"Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition, and Redressal) Act, 2013. An Act to provide protection against sexual harassment of women at workplace and for the prevention and redressal of complaints of sexual harassment and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto"

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