Gender-Neutral Sexual Harassment- A Need for Comprehensive Laws Addressing the Issue in India

Sexual harassment is still a commonly reported incidence in today's world across different cultures and workplaces due to divergence in the manner different genders view themselves as victims or offenders.Current legal systems and cultural discourses tend to only address female victims and male aggressors, thus ignoring potential harassment of gay and/or bisexual men.This paper aims to discuss the topic of gender-neutral sexual harassment by understanding and proposing the importance of a legal and policy adoption of both sexes as victims and offenders.Delimitations of a Gendered Approach to the Issue of Sexual Harassment Despite the availability of different legal instruments at both international and national levels, administrators and policymakers still face many challenges regarding a gendered approach to sexual harassment.This is because gender-neutral perspective offers justice in as much as it erases biases and prejudice that are placed on gendered lens, inequality which exists in the society is eliminated, and the meeting of the societal, workplace and institutional needs are enhanced.They establish shortcomings and drawbacks like underestimation, social prejudice, and organizational opposition to progressive change for both male and female employees.This paper thus calls for more legislation changes and more promotional campaigns and policy reformation towards equality and non discrimination.The change of the paradigm toward a gender equality approach of the present study seeks to advance, within this paper, the design and implementation of a fairer process designed to deal with sexual harassment in modern societies.