Narratives from the Margin

Sexual Harassment and Strategies of Resistance

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ID22223992
AuthorsSandhya Balasaheb Gawali (Jawaharlal Nehru University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume4
Issue2
Pages403-416
Publication date2023-10-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCASTE / A Global Journal on Social Exclusion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2639-4928 • E-ISSN: 2639-4928
PublisherBrandeis University (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.26812/caste.v4i2.603
OpenAlexW4388106303
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited3

In India, the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2013 completed its ten years in April 2023. However, this is a crucial time to review its effects, provisions, and the awareness about the Act, and how much it has percolated at the grassroots level. Consequently, we must pay attention to the voices from the margin in order to comprehend the situation and need to bring these voices to the center to point out the lacuna and challenges of the Act as well as strengthen the discourse around the sexual harassment of women at the workplace. The study based on empirical findings, focuses on experiences of women workers at a wholesale vegetable market in Pune1 and follows an ethnographic approach. The article argues that mainstream discourse on sexual harassment does not acknowledge experiences of women from the bottom of the socio-economic margins and it is a caste-blind gender discourse. Caste shapes women’s experiences of sexual harassment at workplace differently and sometimes to mitigate the risk, women apply different strategies and build alternative mechanisms to combat sexual harassment at the workplace

Caste · Grassroots · Harassment · Mainstream · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

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