Impact of Sexual Harassment on Working Women’s Psychology

Examining the Impact and Remedies of Sexual Harassment at the Workplace

Abstract

In modernized era, women start working outside their homes, many a times in the male dominated occupation. The increasing presence of women in public and private sector contributes towards the growth of the economy but it does not mean that gender inequality has disappeared. Men who considered workplace to be their domain are more dominating at work and keep on discriminating and harassing women on many grounds. Sexual harassment at workplace in India is quite diffused but the victims scared from lodging a complaint because of social disgrace and loss of work. Sexual harassment affects all women up to some extent. From the last decade or more the presence of women continuously increase so as the cases of harassment. Harassment at workplace adversely affect the psychology of women as a result, they were unable to focus on their work. This research paper focuses on the consequences of sexual harassment of women, including the effects on the women's work and mental health. This paper also focuses on the cure to eliminate the harassment at workplace.