Harassment

Sexual Harassment A Cause Of Deteriorating Health Among Female Flight Attendants.

A study was conducted on 2000 female flight attendants working for a National European Airline from 1965 to 1995. The results revealed that they rate their health as poor when they have been sexually harassed. This is of major // concern to the other women who are working with the public. Sexual harassment included women given unwanted attention, being proposed, ogled at, subj...

Doctors' Bid to End Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace

Bullying and harassment in the workplace is BMA Cymru Wales' response to growing concerns amongst Welsh GPs that bullying and harassment is on the increase.// Launching the guidance document, chairman of BMA Cymru Wales’ GP Committee, Dr Andrew Dearden said: “Unwanted and unprofessional behaviour in the workplace that is intimidating, degrading and offensive is simply not acceptable....

Sexual Harassment on the Rise in Aligarh Muslim University

Two teachers have been suspended for sexual harassment. A woman student quit because she could take it no more. Another had her clothes pulled for her "un-Islamic" dress.//Now an angry student is on hunger strike. The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in Uttar Pradesh is in ferment. Worse, many of AMU's women students - they number a staggering 5,000 of the 28,000 student population - are...

Doctors, Nurses Face Sexual Harassment At Work Place

'Sexual Harassment' at the workplace faced by women doctors and nurses have become quite common nowadays and many of them are not ready to come out openly against it.// A recent study conducted in Kolkata, West Bengal, with 135 in-depth interviews of women employees in two government and two private hospitals over a period of 11 months, has brought out this news in which several docto...

Teens More Likely to Become Victims of Online Harassments

A recent survey identifies teen’s online behavior associated with online interpersonal victimization. Teens who talk to strangers online are more likely to become// victims of online harassment than those who share their personal information on the Internet. The report was published in the February issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals....

Harassment in School Affects Majority of Elementary Students

A simple questionnaire prepared by researchers has found that nine out of ten elementary students// have been bullied by their peers. To add more to that it was found that at least six out of ten children reported themselves indulging in some type of bullying in the past year. The survey explored two forms of bullying: direct, such as threatening physical harm, and indirect, such a...

India Grapples With First Bill to Stop Workplace Sex Harassment

India's government is grappling to come up with the first ever legislation aimed at stopping sexual harassment and provide minimum protection to women joining the workforce of its booming economy. A draft law set to go before parliament when it resumes next month aims to put an end to everything from dirty jokes to physical abuse, but is already being criticised by some as too flim...

Gays and Lesbians can Obtain asylum in US on Grounds of Harassment and Abuse

I am happy because I don't have to live like a prisoner anymore in a society where no one is allowed to be different," says Gramoz Prestreshi, a slight, nervous man of 22 , originally hailing from Kosovo and now settled in US. He won his asylum case on the ground that as a gay he was being persecuted in his native country. He was almost beaten to death in 2003 and police were of no...