Gender Neutral Policy
Policy on creating a Gender Neutral Workplace
Purpose
Organization’s philosophy is to be a professional organization, encouraging growth of individuals irrespective of gender, religion, caste or community. Organization endeavors to ensure a safe, secure and congenial work environment, so that employees can deliver their best without inhibition. Through all its policies, Organization seeks to ensure that both sexes have equal opportunity and no preferential or discriminatory treatment is meted out to anyone on grounds of sex alone.
In that context, where a large percentage of the workforce is female, the need was felt to spread awareness to prevent gender related harassment or discrimination, and in event of such occurrence, provide recourse to the concerned individual.
Definitions
The awareness of the broader problem of gender discrimination and the specific instances of sexual harassment gained focus in the 1970s. But even today there is little agreement on the definition of such behavior. Research shows that men and women differ in what they view as acceptable behavior. Women define a wide variety of sexual behaviors at work as sexual harassment, while men tended to rate only the more extreme behaviors as harassment. (Collins and Blodgett, 1981)
Therefore, based on the guidelines given by the Supreme Court and the National Commission for Women, given below are details of what would be considered harassment.
What is Sexual Harassment?
Sexual harassment is a serious offence that can destroy human dignity and violates the right to gender equality, the right to ‘life and liberty’, and the fundamental right ‘to practice any profession or to carry out any occupation, trade, or business.’ It is an act amounting to misconduct in employment. The complainant (victim) does not have to be the person harassed but could be anyone affected by the offensive conduct.
Sexual harassment in the workplace has been defined as including unwelcome sexually
Purpose
Organization’s philosophy is to be a professional organization, encouraging growth of individuals irrespective of gender, religion, caste or community. Organization endeavors to ensure a safe, secure and congenial work environment, so that employees can deliver their best without inhibition. Through all its policies, Organization seeks to ensure that both sexes have equal opportunity and no preferential or discriminatory treatment is meted out to anyone on grounds of sex alone.
In that context, where a large percentage of the workforce is female, the need was felt to spread awareness to prevent gender related harassment or discrimination, and in event of such occurrence, provide recourse to the concerned individual.
Definitions
The awareness of the broader problem of gender discrimination and the specific instances of sexual harassment gained focus in the 1970s. But even today there is little agreement on the definition of such behavior. Research shows that men and women differ in what they view as acceptable behavior. Women define a wide variety of sexual behaviors at work as sexual harassment, while men tended to rate only the more extreme behaviors as harassment. (Collins and Blodgett, 1981)
Therefore, based on the guidelines given by the Supreme Court and the National Commission for Women, given below are details of what would be considered harassment.
What is Sexual Harassment?
Sexual harassment is a serious offence that can destroy human dignity and violates the right to gender equality, the right to ‘life and liberty’, and the fundamental right ‘to practice any profession or to carry out any occupation, trade, or business.’ It is an act amounting to misconduct in employment. The complainant (victim) does not have to be the person harassed but could be anyone affected by the offensive conduct.
Sexual harassment in the workplace has been defined as including unwelcome sexually