This document discusses gender equality and sexual harassment in the workplace. It notes that true equality means there is no discrimination based on sex in access to resources, benefits or services. It defines sexual harassment and outlines Supreme Court guidelines for preventing and addressing harassment, including establishing complaint mechanisms and disciplining or prosecuting harassers. Employers must protect victims and allow issues to be raised without fear of retaliation. The overall goal is to ensure equal opportunity and dignity for all employees regardless of gender.

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Training On
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SESSION OVERVIEW
 It is through synergy of
Public Service
Management and
Human Resource
Management that
principles and
practices of equality of
opportunities as
regards recruitment,
promotion, training,
career development
and other conditions of
service are maintained
Public
Service
Management
Human
Resource
Management
Principles &
Practices of
Equality

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Gender Roles
 Female roles - cooking, washing clothes, ensuring
basic needs at household level, caring for children
etc., are classified as
 Traditional tendency to view men's participation in
housework and child-rearing as unmanly
 Defence women are preferably appointed towards
desk jobs
 Male applicants are entrusted more challenging are
productive faculties

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GENDER
EQUALITY
means that there is no discrimination
on grounds of a person’s sex in the
allocation of resources or benefits, or
in the access to services

8. INTERATION WITH
WOMEN
 HAVING EYE CONTACT ONLY
 MAINTAIN DISTANCE
 BE POLITE
 BE JUDICIARIES
 BE AWERE WE ARE CAREING THEM
 WE DARE TO CARE ONLY
 ANSWER TO THE POINT ONLY
 AS OUR COMPANY SLOGAN
 '' YOUR SAFTY OUR PROIRITY''

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SEXUAL HARASSMENT
AT THE WORKPLACE
-contd.
1997 Supreme Court Judgement on
Sexual Harassment at Workplace,
 every employer required to provide for
effective complaints procedures and
remedies including awarding of
compensation to women victims. In sexual
harassment complaints, the authorities
urged to expedite cases and the disposal is
monitored.

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SEXUAL HARASSMENT
AT THE WORKPLACE
-contd.
 Rule 3(C) concerns the prohibition of
sexual harassment of working women
 Enjoins the Government servant
 not to indulge in any act of sexual
harassment of any women in the workplace
 in-charge of a workplace to take appropriate
steps to prevent sexual harassment to any
woman at such work

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SEXUAL HARASSMENT
AT THE WORKPLACE
- contd.
Sexual harassment includes-
 physical contact and advances;
 demand or request for sexual favours;
 sexually coloured remarks;
 showing any pornography;
 any unwelcome physical, verbal or
non-verbal conduct of a sexual nature.

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GUIDELINES OF
SUPREME COURT
- on sexual
harassment
 Duty of the employer to prevent or deter the
commission of acts of sexual harassment
and to provide for the resolution, settlement
or prosecution of acts of sexual harassment
 Criminal proceedings to be initiated in
appropriate cases
 Where such conduct amounts to
misconduct, appropriate disciplinary action
to be initiated by the employer

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GUIDELINES OF
SUPREME COURT
- on sexual
harassment
 Complaint mechanism should be
created in every organisation
 Employees should be allowed to raise
issues of sexual harassment
 Third party harassment – employer to
take necessary steps and preventive
action
 Victims can opt for transfer of the
perpetrator or their own

14. Any
Questions ?
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15. Thank You
Rajendra .S. V
Manager
Resources & Training
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