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What is POSH Act? “Identification of tormentor by women at workplace does not come easily even today.” Examine the statement with substantive examples from India.

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  • Challenges of Social Transformation

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The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 — the POSH Act — codified the guidelines laid down in Vishaka v. State of Rajasthan (1997), a petition arising from the gang rape of Bhanwari Devi, a village-level government worker in Rajasthan punished for trying to stop a child marriage. The…

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  • What the Act provides
  • Why identification does not come easily
  • The shift, and what produced it
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