Prevention of Sexual Harassment

Overview of the Course:

Sexual Harassment is a universal reality that cannot be ignored.
Women of all segments of the society and in all age groups have faced sexual harassment at some point of time or other at their homes or in the eco system or at workplaces. At homes, sexual harassment comes in the form of unwanted attention and physical touching that makes them uncomfortable. At workplaces it may start with gender bias to gross violation of her dignity playing out in a power game of men vs. women. It may emanate from the place of patriarchal upbringing of the population leading to treating women as weaker section and hiding behind the veil of community, culture, and language making women feel it as a way of life.
It is a gross violation of a woman’s fundamental right to equality, to life and to live with dignity. Sexual harassment should not have a place in our society.
For a long time, even in all workplaces be in government or corporate India, this was an accepted norm, until an incident and a Court Judgement shook things up to bring about:

1. A landmark judgement that changed the lens with which organizations should view Sexual Harassment in Workplace
2. Bring about Zero Tolerance towards Sexual Harassment
The POSH Act 2013 was enacted by the parliament & received the assent of the President of India with publication in the Gazette of India as law on April 23, 2013.
The genesis of this act dates back to 1985 to an incident of gross violation of women’s modesty faced by a social worker Bhanwari Devi in Rajasthan while doing her duty raising the community issues like child marriage and many other as part of the government program.
The incident created the much needed support by Non- governmental organizations by filling public litigation in the Supreme Court after the victim facing injustice in the lower courts of the state. The Supreme Court looked at the case and the issue of Sexual Harassment in a holistic way leading to the enactment of Vishaka Guidelines in 1997 with a directive to follow it in law and spirit till the legislation is passed in the parliament for enactment of a law against Sexual Harassment against Women.
This module will lead the learners through the session on Sexual Harassment towards Women Act 2013 also referred commonly as POSH Act 2013.

Course Outline

Section-1: Introduction to Prevention on Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act 2013 (POSH)
Section -2 Genesis of POSH Act 2013
Section -3 Vishaka Guidelines issued by the Supreme Court
Section-4 Concept of Gender and Equality & Inequality
Section-5 POSH Act, 2013 – Sexual
a. Harassment at Workplace
b. Redressal mechanism
c. Sexual Harassment Complaint Process
Section-6 Assessment & Certification

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Who should enrol for this course?

This course is mandatory for all employees whether they are male or female, temporary, permanent, intern, contract or any other mode of employment contract across the industry that is formal or informal sector. The course should be attended by
1. Existing workforce working in any type of industry that is service, manufacturing or trading sector or Research and Development, NGO.

2. Workforce new to industry.

3. An individual already serving or going to be appointed as the member of the Internal Complaints Committee in their company or Local Complaints Committee formed by the District Nodal officer to know how to conduct the proceedings of the complaints committee.

4. Employers, Owners, Directors, CEOs, MDs or General Manager, Vice President, Managers, or any other designation that they may have to know the responsibility to follow the directives of POSH Act 2013 and abide by the act as an individual .

Total Time:

The module is 90 minutes.

Total time required for this course would be nearly 90 minutes. The entire course has been divided into smaller micro learning modules. You can even complete micro modules of 05 to 20 minutes at your convenience. We recommend you to allot a good time to recap your learnings.

The Mode of Delivery:

To make it simple and easy to understand, the course will be delivered as a video based module with voice over in English to assist learners. We have designed this course spread over various segments followed by a knowledge test and a quiz at the end.
You will be asked to download a workbook at the beginning of the module. Do remember to download and take notes and list down your questions that you may want to ask the facilitators of the course.
To make it easy, we have two sections in every frame of the video.
The first is the discussion board. It is a community of learners, where you can raise your questions that may be answered by one of the learners or by the facilitators for the course. It is possible that your questions may have been raised already by a learner and you can see the trail of the discussion and concluding comments by the facilitator.
The second is a section for taking notes. This is an online space for you to take notes of your learnings or important points that you want to recall. You must remember to download or copy the same to your notepad or a word document before expiry of the course for which you may have been enrolled.

Evaluation Process:

At the end of the course you will have an “Online Test” for being certified as proficient in the course.
Score of 90% plus – Maestro
Score of 70 - 90% - Expert
Score of 50 - 70% - Professional
Score of less than 50% - Try again
You will get a certificate that can be downloaded for your records. We encourage you to share your proficiency on the social media especially in Linkedin, Instagram and Facebook to showcase your competency amongst our peer group. This will help you to build professional competency profile.

Wish you all the best!