Letter to Editor regarding sexual harassment of working women.

Letter to Editor regarding sexual harassment of working women.

Sir,

This letter is in reference to your article on “Working Women and their Problems” dt. June 26, 2003, in which you have mentioned that in most of the work places, it is the male who takes the first step towards harassing the females. I would beg to differ from you in this regard. Is it really essential for a woman to work, other than in the school, college and hospitals? If you dissect this malaise, you will find women to be more responsible. As a matter of fact, it has become a fashion in Delhi, and other metros especially for the teenagers to put a whole lot of lipstick and spraying fragrance, while leaving for their working place. Once there, they spend more time in gossiping instead of working besides that they also vie for the male attention and wear dresses that are skin tight and extremely disgraceful. In the evenings, they usually want to go out for a treat with the office staff, again female, which leaves them quite vulnerable. This is more common in the corporate sector where things are taken to be quite “cool”, which has a dubious meaning. So, it is high time that these women for whom job is a past time and means more of fun rather than finance, should stay home instead of falling victims and then making an issue about it.

Yours Truly,

Satyanarain Prasad