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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | TheyToo: What about men and the third gender? -Sriparna Ray

TheyToo: What about men and the third gender? -Sriparna Ray

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published Published on Oct 18, 2018   modified Modified on Oct 18, 2018
-The Telegraph

The harassment at workplace act needs an upgrade to include men and transgenders in the MeToo conversation

I have been sexually harassed and bullied by my boss. I was threatened I would lose my job if I didn’t comply — sounds like an excerpt from one of the hundreds of accounts of women that have been doing the rounds on social media? Well, it is a story of sexual harassment at the workplace all right, but it is unlikely to find a place in the current #MetToo narrative — because the statement comes from a man.

Amarpreet Kaur, the founder of HR Consulting company HRHelpdesk, ran a survey called Mahila Bol on the sexual harassment of women at the workplace. And she was surprised to find a bunch of men responding to the questionnaire. Their collective concern: What about us?

If they are looking for an answer from the corridors of law, they will have to wait. For, the law on sexual harassment at the workplace completely leaves men and the LGBTQIA (Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, and asexual or allied) community out of its scope.

On September 6, 2018, the Supreme Court of India gave this country a “rainbow of hope” with its landmark judgment decriminalsing homosexuality under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. While the verdict directly affected a particular section of the society, the judges’ words articulated the notion of a modern, progressive, democratic state. “Such progressive proclivity is rooted in the constitutional structure and is an inextricable part of human nature,” the five-judge bench had ruled. “The rule of law requires a just law which facilitates equality, liberty and dignity in all its facets,” Justice D.Y. Chandrachud had said.

A similar drive to establish an equal society saw the ruling on the colonial-era adultery law, according to which a man who had sex with a married woman, without the permission of her husband, had committed a crime. The Supreme Court struck it down, saying: “It is time to say that a husband is not the master. Equality is the governing parameter.”

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The Telegraph, 13 October, 2018, https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/theytoo-what-about-men-and-the-third-gender/cid/1671743?ref=features_india-page


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