Indian Working Women Forum - Sexual Harassment Helpline/Counseling

Free SOS Mobile Apps again Sexual Harassment etc during travel

Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:29:36 +0000

Hi
Sexual Harassment and assault is a major issue in India. With increasingly independent women now working in factories and offices and stepping beyond the subservient roles to which they had traditionally been relegated, working late hours and travelling alone have become unavoidable for them. But if modernization is changing the risks women face, it is also giving them the ability to speak up.

Definitely there is mobile technology based solution for it. Any women working late hours or travelling alone can download SOS-India App from Play store and App store. It is a useful app for women and child. You can install the app and add your friends and family in the contact list and providing tracking option and select Track me option. This is will give your current location of travel to your family and friends.

Any delay and deviation can alert them. this way you can be protected from any sexual assault happening against you when you are on the move.
For further details of this app pls visit:

http://saveoursisters.in

My senior harassing me sexually - need advice

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:03:08 +0000

I work in a MNC in pune, I lodged this below given complaint by mail today, I was sick of that guy and his blackmailing, but I'm afraid, what to do next, what will they do. The head mailed me to meet him tomorrow.
I'm afraid that guy will show some Sms I sent him due to his blackmailing, like good morning, I miss u etc,, but they are very few. Please, help me what should I do now.

To,
The Head,
Company name,
Pune

Subject: to complain about sexual harassment

Sir,
With respect to the above mentioned subject myself, want to draw your attention to the misconduct and abusive behavior of Asst.Manager R&D Dept.
He has been torturing me in different ways enlisted below. I am very unstable emotionally and mentally due to all this things; my personal life is getting ruined due to this person. He blackmailed me for so many days and I kept quite but when I shared these things with my close friends, they encouraged me to speak out and so I am finally able to lodge a complaint. Below are my objections.

He keeps questioning about my personal life so that to comment on it. He shows unnecessary interest in my personal life.
Tries to convince me to stay late in the office after working hours.
Gestures his eyes, fingers in abusive way saying “we will do this if you just stay..” etc
When I try to tell him that I am committed please don’t behave like that, he says, “nobody will know, I assure you” etc
His behavior is always flirty with girls, this thing is easily notable by many fellow colleagues specially Maharashtrians
Proposed me for marriage many times, even if knowing that I am committed. When denied he would say “doesn’t matter we will just stay like that” etc
Whenever there is nobody around, he tries to touch my intimate parts, or keeps touching his own giving odd facial expressions or using vulgar words.
He said, if I don’t talk friendly with him, he will spread rumors about me in the company.
He tells me to send him friendly or personal SMS so that he can show off in his friend circle.
He threatened me if I don’t do like that he will create problems in my works and project bad image of mine to my seniors (which would ruin my career) saying that they all are his friends as all are south Indians.
I tried to avoid him many times even I quit talking to him but due to work I have to go to him and he takes advantage of that and approaches me in different ways to start conversation and do vulgar things.
He makes fun of me in his friends, in intangible (Tamil/Telugu) language that I don’t understand and they laugh at me.
When I told him I will complain this to my parents or in the office, he says “I don’t belong here nobody can harm me in any ways.” etc
And many odd and indecent things which I can not talk or write about…

Sir, I request you to take appropriate actions about this person, it is quite impossible for me to work if he is staying in the company premises.
After lodging this complain I am afraid of negative publicity and I will be threatened/hurt as he used to say. I am already living a frustrated life because of him, so I request you to keep all these things highly confidential, please don’t talk or inquire about these things to my colleagues else it will be hard for me to live a normal life. If I hurt myself due to these tensions or somebody hurts me, he and the authorities will be solely responsible.
My friends told me to file FIR in police under ‘working women protection acts’ etc. Or request help from Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, but I truly believe in positive, secular and unbiased nature & decision making policy of our company. So I avoided all this and I am requesting justice that he must pay for all his deeds. I trust that your decisions will bring satisfaction and peace to my restless mind.

Yours sincerely

sexual harassment at garrison enginier airforce chandigarh

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:26:20 +0000

sir,
i am working in military enginiering services and i faced sexual harassment a\from my immediate superior garrison engineir air force chandigarh and i had complaint the matter to the department ,police and NCW,but there is no action from police and ncw from last one and a half year, but the department constituted two enquireies in the first one director architect female is the presiding officer and other two female members,all there are from the department and she had submitted the report ,but i had not given the copy of the report from last 8 months in response to my RTI'S ,nad the department ordered the revised board presided by male officer and other two female members,all from department,,and they had also submitted the report,,i had gone through the harassment but the department is favouring the culprit and the department in way of saving the culprit ,the enquiry is proceded in the way as to help the culprit and now taking diciplinary action against me and i am desperate as no body is listening to me and i request you to help me in this ......

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Need help for my friend

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:30:46 +0000

My friend who is in Engineering college is a very simple girl and is being abused by her professor in her govt college. She does not have her father and financially not sound.
What can she do in these circumstances.

Is it a harassment?

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:59:03 +0000

I'm in a government organization and there is one very senior person always belittle working women in office that they are useless, women should not be recruited and has a humiliating attitude towards women.
Isn't there any law for this? Is it all ethical?