Any form of sexual harassment can leave women to feel anxious and in a distressing situation. But sexual harassment of women at the workplace makes life even more difficult. It can hamper their career growth and in some cases, women leave their career altogether. With the advent of the #metoo movement. Many women came forward to tell their stories of sexual harassment. It further showed the prevalence of sexual harassment in workplaces all over the world. Let's discuss how sexual harassment affects women mentally and how they can protect themselves from sexual predators at work? Mental Impact of Sexual Harassment The severity of the incidences of sexual harassment at the workplace could leave a woman mentally drained and stressed. Only a safe and secure environment to work can ensure an employee’s mental well-being. Here are the main impacts of sexual harassment on a female employee, • It makes women uncomfortable which reduces their productivity due to lack of concentration. • It leads to physical stress to which could further lead to other health issues. • A disturbed mental state could also cause an employee act irrationally sometimes leading to unnecessary arguments at the workplace. How to Adress Sexual harassment At Workplace? PoSH Act 2013 or prevention of sexual harassment act has empowered women to fight against workplace sexual harassment. The first step in addressing the harassment case is to identify an act or gesture as sexual harassment. If a women feel violated due to any gesture, words, or acts of an employee then she can use the PoSH law to address such situation. The PoSH law has made it mandatory for employers to set up the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) to address the causes of sexual harassment of women at workplace in a timebound manner. • If a woman is not comfortable in addressing inappropriate behaviour directly then they can approach the ICC and file a complaint with them. • If the woman is uncomfortable in reaching to ICC then she can go to the HR department and file a complaint to ICC through them. • The ICC will then start an investigation in the matter and as an immediate measure of relief, they will order the HR to shift the perpetrator or the victim to some other department of the workplace so that they won’t have to come face to face. • After completion of the investigation, the ICC will take action on the accused.

1. Presentation on
Fighting Sexual harassment at
Workplace
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2. Fighting Sexual harassment at Workplace-
How It Affects Women Mentally?
Any form of sexual harassment can leave women to feel
anxious and in a distressing situation. But sexual
harassment of women at the workplace makes life even
more difficult. It can hamper their career growth and in
some cases, women leave their career altogether. With the
advent of the #metoo movement. Many women came
forward to tell their stories of sexual harassment. It further
showed the prevalence of sexual harassment in
workplaces all over the world. Let's discuss how sexual
harassment affects women mentally and how they can
protect themselves from sexual predators at work?
MUDS MANAGEMENT PRIVATE LIMITED

3. Mental Impact of Sexual Harassment
The severity of the incidences of sexual harassment at the
workplace could leave a woman mentally drained and stressed.
Only a safe and secure environment to work can ensure an
employee’s mental well being. Here are the main impacts of sexual
harassment on a female employee,
It makes women uncomfortable which reduces their
productivity due to lack of concentration.
It leads to physical stress to which could further lead to other
health issues.
A disturbed mental state could also cause an employee act
irrationally sometimes leading to unnecessary arguments at
the workplace.

4. How to Address Sexual harassment At
Workplace?
PoSH Act 2013 or prevention of sexual harassment act
has empowered the women to fight against workplace
sexual harassment. The first step in addressing the
harassment case is to identify an act or gesture as sexual
harassment. If a women feel violated due to any gesture,
words, or acts of an employee then she can use the PoSH
law to address such situation. The PoSH law has made it
mandatory for employers to set up the Internal
Complaints Committee (ICC) to address the cases of
sexual harassment of women at workplace in a
timebound manner.

5. If a woman is not comfortable in addressing inappropriate behavior
directly then they can approach the ICC and file a complaint with them.
If the woman is uncomfortable in reaching to ICC then she can go to the
HR department and file a complaint to ICC through them.
The ICC will then start an investigation in the matter and as an
immediate measure of relief, they will order the HR to shift the
perpetrator or the victim to some other department of the
workplace so that they won’t have to come face to face.
After completion of the investigation, the
ICC will take action on the accused.

6. Thanks and Regards
CS Shweta Gupta
Email: shweta@muds.co.in
Contact: +91 9599653306
Address: A-60, Sanjay Gram, (opposite Sector-14)
Gurgoan-122001
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