Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Sexual Harassment in the name of Mankind!!

Ludicrous!! I really am not able to find a word or phrase or sentence to describe the thinking of people occupying "exalted" postions with such pea-brained mentality. Sexual Harassment meted out to a woman by a man is gallantary and a favour he does to mankind. Wow!! Wouldn't some people love this?

This is exactly what was decided by a judge in Russia on a case of Sexual Harassment filed by an employee against her boss. The judge in all his wisdom ruled that "If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children," Amazing!!

I have been advocating against the Protection of Women from Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill as I was feeling that a separate Act was not necessary but certain amendments to the Indian Penal Code would suffice as this Act would be like the proverbial Damocles Sword hanging over the heads of employers of women and consequently it would result in more and more women being denied employment. But after this judgement by the Russian Court, I am forced to do a re-think.

What are the International Organizations doing? The Universal Declaration of Human Rights to which Russia is a signatory relegated to the back burner. The International Communities should pressurize Russia to ratify, accept, adopt and accede to CEDAW, else it seems like doom is spelt for Russian women.

5 comments:

Balaji S Rajan said...

Rama,

Why no posts from you for a long time. I think Women like you should keep writing and motivate more girls to be aware of many things. Please come with a bang. Your posts are very thoughtful.

Suchin Kerlapur said...

i am surprised reading this that russians take it as pleasure sexually harrassing women. i wonder if the women there think the same way? how long this has been going on there? effect of communism :) ?

(we cant help but take it for granted whole of russia thinks so since it has come from their courts)

Suchin Kerlapur said...

by the way nice colours for your blog. also change ads by google to use blog's colour. overall it looks nice and pleasing...

Anonymous said...

It is because of these people do not believe in marriage anymore. Do you know that in western countries the number of children born out of wedlock has increased manifold and in some countries it has reached a whopping 40 per cent.

Hence the perverted judgment.

Rama said...

Balaji,

Sure will try not to take long breaks. Thank you

Suchin,

Thank you

Sharp,

The mentality has to change, else we will see all types of perverse, ludicrous and funny judgments by the dozens..