why leave domestic maids/helps and rag-pickers out of PWSH Bill 2010 ;asks social activists

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Bring domestic maids within the ambit of PWSH Bill 2010

Before tabling the bill in the parliament , necessary provisions
should be be made to bring domestic maids/helps and rag-pickers within
the ambit of the 'Protection of Women Against Sexual Harassment at the
Work Place Bill 2010'.

CJ: urvashi sharma Mon, Nov 08, 2010 12:50:39 IST

BEFORE TABLING the 'Protection of Women Against Sexual Harassment at
the Work Place Bill 2010' in the parliament, necessary provisions
should be made to bring domestic maids/helps and rag-pickers within
the ambit of the 'Protection of Women Against Sexual Harassment at the
Work Place Bill 2010'.
An online petition and memorandum submitted by activists asserts that
though the bill provides protection to women, who are employed and
also to any woman, who enters the workplace; it has left the most
vulnerable (to sexual harassment) section of the society ie, the
domestic maids, who are not covered by the bill and this is the most
negative aspect of the bill that takes all the positives points of the
bill away from it.

"This is in utter injustice that the government wants to leave that
section of women workers who constitutes a major chunk of
working-women and are amongst the most exploited ones. Studies have
shown that they are extremely vulnerable to sexual harassment. In this
context, the bill has extremely limited scope and it is very
condemnable that the government has not taken this marginalised
section of the society which constitutes the largest section of
working-women though working in an unorganised sector," said activist
Usha of social group Yaishwaryaj.

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Urvashi Sharma

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