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    Social Issues-1

    Harassment
    Dr.S.Patchainayagi
    AP/SSL
    VITCC
    Definition
    • Aggressive pressure or intimidation.
    • Disturbing an individual physically or
    emotionally
    It can refer to …
    • Threats of eviction
    • Loss of employment
    • Denial of rights
    • Discrimination on the basis of caste, creed,
    ethnicity or race.
    Types
    • Work place Harassment
    • Psychological Harassment
    • Racial Harassment
    • Religious Harassment
    • Sexual Harassment
    • Misuse of authority
    • Cyber related harassment
    • Dowry Harassment
    Work place Harassment

    • Abusing a person loudly in the presence of others


    • Repeated threats of dismissal for a flimsy reason
    • Constant ridicule
    • Offensive messages
    • Hiding documents, deliberately giving wrong
    information or withholding information.
    • Humiliating through gestures, sarcasm, criticism
    and insult.
    • Spreading rumours and gossiping.
    Psychological harassment
    • Umbrella term, at work place it means the
    employer demeaning the employee.
    • Forcing to work in a humiliating condition.
    • Destroying a person’s emotional balance.
    • Harassing techniques: denial of contacts,
    work, isolation.
    • The harassed person develops post-traumatic
    stress syndrome.
    Racial Harassment
    • Racial discrimination refers to discrimination
    against individuals on the basis of their race.
    • Racial Harassment occurs when a person or
    group repeatedly use discriminatory remarks,
    behaviours or practices to show racial
    intolerance against a co-worker or their colour,
    descent, culture, language or religion.
    Religious Harassment
    • Preaching one’s faith to others through force.
    • Preaching it in workplace
    • Proselytize - convert or attempt to convert
    (someone) from one religion, belief, or
    opinion to another.
    • Proselytizing – complicated form of religious
    harassment.
    Sexual Harassment
    • harassment (typically of a woman) in a
    workplace, or other professional or social
    situation, involving the making of unwanted
    sexual advances or obscene remarks.
    Sexual harassments includes…
    • Rape or sexual assault
    • Pressure for sexual pleasures
    • Deliberate touching, leaning over, cornering or
    pinching.
    • Unwanted sexual looks, gestures, teasing,
    jokes, remarks or questions
    • Unwanted letters, telephone calls, or material
    of sexual nature.
    • Whistling, cat calls, sexual comments, innuendos
    or stories.
    • Referring to an adult as girl, hunk, doll, babe or
    honey
    • Turning work discussions to sexual topics,
    unwanted pressure for dates,
    • Touching an employee’s clothing, hair or body.
    • Hugging, kissing, patting or stroking
    • Etc.,
    Misuse of Authority
    • The misuse of power or authority in the
    course of performing work.
    Abuse of power or authority can take
    various forms…
    • Bullying or harassing behaviour
    • Requesting staff to do personal errands or favours
    • Pressuring staff to distort facts or break rules.
    • Interfering with the ability of colleague to work
    effectively.
    • Tapping the phone of political opponents
    • Torture of prisoners by officials
    • Creation of surveillance society
    • Political spying.
    Cyber related harassment
    • With reference to electronic communication
    • Cyber stalking : to stalk someone, generally refers to
    pattern of threatening of malicious behaviours.
    • Cyber Harassment : it pertains to threatening or
    harassing emails, blog entries, websites dedicated
    solely to tormenting an individual.
    • Cyber Bullying: online bullying or harassment. –
    states have enacted cyber bullying laws.
    Dowry Harassment
    • It constitutes to be a major issue in marriage.
    • Payment of dowry – prohibited – 1961 –
    Indian Penal code - sections 304B and 498A
    • Penalty for dowry- imprisonment for six
    months to two years.
    • Dowry death – not less than 7 years to life
    time imprisonment.

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