Sexual Harassment of Working Women:Incidence and Reasons

Sexual Harassment at workplace is a violation of women's right to gender equality, life and liberty. Sexual harassment of working women is an extension of violence in everyday life and is discriminatory, exploitative, thriving in atmosphere of threat, terror and reprisal. In India, it was the ruling of the Supreme Court (1997) in the famous Vishaka Case that brought the issue to the public consciousness. The present paper attempts to find out the existence of the problem of sexual harassment among women at work place & to explore main precipitating factors responsible for the problem of sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is a recent phenomenon and in order to highlight the hazards of occupations women face, it becomes necessary to take up such problem which clearly refers towards the working women.