{"id":50563,"date":"2019-07-25T17:46:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T12:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?page_id=50563"},"modified":"2019-07-25T17:46:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T12:16:26","slug":"answered-governments-efforts-and-legal-frameworks-to-prevent-sexual-harassment-against-women-has-not-been-much-successful-discuss","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-governments-efforts-and-legal-frameworks-to-prevent-sexual-harassment-against-women-has-not-been-much-successful-discuss\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] \u201cGovernment\u2019s efforts and legal frameworks to prevent sexual harassment against women has not been much successful.\u201d Discuss."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Demand of the question<\/strong>
Introduction. <\/strong>Contextual Introduction.
Body. <\/strong>Reasons for less impact of laws on sexual crimes against women.
Conclusion. <\/strong>Way forward. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

Despite of enactment of various laws and rules like Sexual harassment at workplace, sexual harassment remains widespread across India. The underlying causes are complex. It is undeniable that irrespective of how good the law maybe, sexual harassment still exists almost everywhere and mostly goes unreported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reason behind inefficiency of laws and rules to\nprevent sexual harassment of women:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Under-reporting:\n<\/strong>A recent report reveals that there is a 12% increase\nin the sexual offences. However these number are still very less as compared to\ncrime in the country. Women still not report cases of sexual harassment due to\nfear of society and thus culprit roam around without being punished.<\/li>
  2. Mindset: <\/strong>Indian mindset is a major issue. People see sex still a taboo. Further\npatriarchal mindset downgrade women.  Many\nwomen don\u2019t talk or report of sexual offence in starting which later become a\nmajor offence.<\/li>
  3. Objectification:\n<\/strong>Women are still viewed as a property and is\nseen as honour of husband especially in rural areas. Many women don\u2019t report\nsexual offence because of honour of family and husband. This lead to sense of\nconfidence among culprit of not getting caught and punished and he further\ncommits more crime.<\/li>
  4. Non-supportive\ncorporate sector: <\/strong>Mostly companies are not\nsupportive of Internal complaint Committee. It is primarily because the\ncompanies only take sexual harassment prevention as a compliance and not\nsomething which is vital for women at their workplace. They tend to ignore that\neven their top performing managers could be at fault too. They do not cooperate\nby supporting the victim to save their image.<\/li>
  5. Loopholes\nin law: <\/strong>Even law has a lot of\nloopholes. For example, under Sexual harassment at workplace act, the law\nstates that there has to be an annual report that needs to be filed by\ncompanies, but there is no clarity with the format or filing procedure. The\nevidence to show that a company is compliant or not is also very subjective and\nneeds clarity. The matter of non compliance needs to be reported to a District\nMagistrate or district officer. In case of any absence, there is no clarity as\nto whom to approach next.<\/li>
  6. Dilemma of\nDignity vs. livelihood:<\/strong> When a woman files a\ncomplaint about sexual harassment, she is labelled as impure at workplace and\nsociety by many and is often discriminated. Filing a complaint is not easy and it\noften comes at the cost of losing a job or being branded a trouble maker.<\/li>
  7. Poor\nimplementation of laws: <\/strong>The Indian justice\nsystem has failed to investigate, prosecute, and punish the perpetrators and\nfailed to provide effective redressal for victims. Especially state police attitude\nis not good in implementing laws against sexual crime. Many cases of misbehave\nwith women by police has been reported.<\/li>
  8. Lack of\npolitical will: <\/strong>Many times sex crime against\nwomen is motivated politically to create an environment of tension and communal\nconflicts. E.g raping of Dalit by upper caste member. Politicians do not take\naction to keep their support of a community or sect for votes. Perpetrators are\nalso rarely held accountable due to lack of political will.<\/li>
  9. Lack of\ncentralised database:<\/strong> There exists no\ncentralised mechanism to collect data on sexual harassment, which is why it is\ndifficult to chart a trends analysis or pattern on harassment that women face. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    #MeToo movement has moved the social media with women documenting their stories of sexual harassment, but this has to be followed by due process in order to build accountability of the state in protecting the rights of women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Demand of the question Introduction. Contextual Introduction. Body. Reasons for less impact of laws on sexual crimes against women. Conclusion. Way forward. Despite of enactment of various laws and rules like Sexual harassment at workplace, sexual harassment remains widespread across India. The underlying causes are complex. It is undeniable that irrespective of how good the… Continue reading [Answered] \u201cGovernment\u2019s efforts and legal frameworks to prevent sexual harassment against women has not been much successful.\u201d Discuss.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":49132,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50563","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}