Eight years on, India’s law to prevent workplace sexual harassment is marred by poor data collection
While many women in formal employment can take advantage of the Prevention of Sexual Harassment Act, many who work in informal jobs have no such access. Representational image. | PTI
Almost 24 years after India got its first guidelines to prevent sexual harassment at the workplace and eight years after the government enacted a law for it, there are few publicly available data on how efficient these mechanisms are, an
IndiaSpend review found
In fact,
the government maintains no centralised data relating to cases of harassment of women at workplaces, the Parliament was
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