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Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition & Redressal) Act) (POSH ACT), 2013

1. Introduction Man and woman are born equal but are not often treated equally. In the earlier times, women were only considered as robots for household work and self satisfaction. It was from the starting of the 20th century when the government started passing special laws and acts for women, and then they started coming out of their houses and started to create their position in every stream of life whether it is politics, army, science or technology. It is pretty natural for the society when a man steps his feet out for work but when the women were often ill treated and judged by the society when she started going out of their household for work. Moreover the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) adopted by the General assembly of United states also prohibits sexual harassment of women at work place, and since India is party to CEDAW. Since India signed CEDAW in 1980 and ratified it in 1993, it has become the duty of India to make strict