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Sexual Harassment of women (Field Study 2012)

Team members:Sitanshu Bindra Gaurav Kumar Singh Chandrapu Siddhanth Varun Aggarwal Rahul Dev Mandal Abhishek Goswami

INTRODUCTION
What is Sexual Harassment:
There is no one definition of sexual harassment, either in terms of behavior or the
circumstances in which it occurs (Bimrose, 2004; Fitzgerald and Ormerod, 1991; Fitzgerald et al, 1995; Stockdale and Hope, 1997). any action occurring within the workplace whereby women are treated as objects of the male sexual prerogative. (Lafontaine and Tredeau, 1986: 435) not about sex, [but] about power it supports and perpetuates a system in which one class of persons is systematically disempowered. (Bratton, cited in Van Tol, 1991: 160). Violence against women is experienced by women of all ages and social classes, all races, religions and nationalities, all over the world. It is overwhelmingly perpetrated by men (Krug et al, 2002).

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Where Is It most likely to occur:

In Organizations : Culture and hierarchal Structure of the an organization gives a

deeper understanding how and why it occurs . Understanding with respect to Victim and Offender.

Public area : Understanding culture of the country may be treated as Intrinsic factor for
offender . Role of public law reinforcements. Which Group are likely to fall for it : Multiple Authors' View: Unskilled or Inexperienced labors by skilled or post holding personal. External Enviourments and Organizational pressure.

Impact of Sexual Harassment

Impact of sexual harassment is there for both Individuals and Organization.

Offended - may experience illness, humiliation, anger, loss of self confidence and psychological damage. Organization Loose of talent . Increases Attrition Rate . Loss of reputation . Brand Value Depreciation. Offender Risk of reputation . Psycho-dynamic effects. Reference of Niccolo Machiavelli theory of Government and Politics. (1469-1527)

NEED FOR THE STUDY

This qualitative study is to define their experiences as sexual harassment and how they have moved on their life with the experience. This qualitative study conducted in

India, which has a conservative culture and our study is based on first hand sample of
sexual harassment in corporate organizations. Such studies in India are conducted very rarely, because women are hesitant to share their experiences.

Interviews point to social isolation as a mechanism linking harassment to gender

nonconformity and womens authority, particularly in male-dominated work settings. LETS TOGETHER WORK FOR A SOCIETY WERE WOMEN CAN LIVE

WITHOUT FEAR OF ANY KIND OF VOILENCE.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS
What is the perception of sexual harassment amongst the
offended? How it has affected their work life and family life? According to them who or what factors helped them to move on with the experience? Intervention in policies from their perspective which can reduce

the cases of sexual harassment?

How many woman are willing to oppose an act of sexual harassment and fight for justice?

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Theory Policy Practice

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
Theory
While women harassment has been a pervasive problem for women throughout history, only in the past three decades have feminist litigators have been able to define women harassment. Women around the world are beginning to tell their stories and expose the pervasiveness of harassment in society. There by we seek to explore the factors contributing to the increasing incidence of women harassment in India. We are interested in developing understanding of experience of the victim, how they cope up with it , what resort they rely on when they come across these situations, which are the places they have experienced it and what stops them from raisin there voice against the heinous crime.

Policy
By making use of our contribution in developing a better understanding of women harassment, we would like to draw the attention of women right activist, the government and other social activist to come up with various policies and action to protect the rights of women and provide them with more power and security to work, walk and stand free in the society.

Practice
With the help of our study we can come up with various innovative ideas to protect the rights of the woman. We can encourage the women who already went through this phase to form a self help group to take care of themselves and to take care of the rights of the other women too. Through various channels of social media we would like to reach every women of society and to make them understand how prevalent this crime is. The experience of the victim and what can be done to deal with this situation

STUDY DESIGN
Sample Methods Document review

Timeline
Budget Researcher Identity Ethical Considerations

SAMPLE
Types of sampling:
Maximum variation: Sample will be of wide variety of women in different socio-economic status. Our study would include the following sample set: Students of IFMR, friends or, social and regional background, educational and cultural exposure. Number of sample size : - 54 (Depending on the availability). sample includes women from Age Profession Educational Qualification Urban and Rural Socio Economic Background

SAMPLE SIZE
Profession High income Job Age 15-30 years 4 30-45 years 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Middle Income Low Income

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Note: Numbers in red are the women who stays away from their families (eg: PG, Hostels etc.) Number in black are the women who stay with their families

METHODS

Interview : - In-depth interviews will be used to engage in purposeful conversations with individual

participants.
Questionnaire: Semi-structured. Open-ended. Sensitive

DOCUMENT REVIEW
In the document review, we are taking into consideration the data and articles available from the NGOs and self help groups, working in this area or any other previous research which has been conducted on sexual harassment.

There are a number of women forums on harassment from where we

will be collecting data relevant to our study. Media reports, lawsuits and high profile cases will also be referred.

TIMELINE
Timeline week1 and methods
Interview (Round 1) Face to Face

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Face to Face

Face to Face

Interview (Round 2)

Face to Face

Face to Face

Face to Face

Face to Face

BUDGET
Expenses
Stationery

Rupees:
500

Communication (phone, internet)

800

Travel

1000

Total

2300

RESEARCHER IDENTITY
Similarities
Educational Background. Urban Living. Corporate Experience. Differences Gender. Emotions and Perceptions. Experience

ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Follow all procedures required to obtain consent from individuals and institutions participating in our study. Pseudonyms to protect the identity of the participants. Purposes of the research will be fully disclosed.

Full disclosure of the purposes of the research, since we intend to

publish/circulate the study to spread awareness on sexual harassment.

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