The long road to a safe workplace

The #metoo movement may have provided a wake-up call for leaders across India Inc to significantly up the ante in building safe and gender-balanced workplaces

MJ Akbar’s decision to quit the government will go down as a major victory for the #metoo movement in India. Yet sounding the victory bugle may be terribly premature. There are thousands of women who are still afraid to come forward and report cases of sexual harassment at the workplace. The fact is that India Inc is still far away from building a safe and gender-balanced workplace that provides a sense of security for people to willingly come forward and report incidents and also believe that there will be a fair and thorough hearing of their complaints.

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