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Catching up with sexual harassment

In India, 70 per cent of women said they did not complain for fear of reprisals, according to a survey this year by the Indian Bar Association

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Kanika Datta
So #MeToo has finally cost a politician a US Senate election. Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for the Alabama Senate seat, lost narrowly following appalling revelations of stalking and assaulting teenage girls. So far, the spontaneously revelatory campaign has taken its toll on senior politicians, star journalists, and artistes of all political shades. 

Wonder why corporate America remains an oasis of calm as far as sexual harassment is concerned? And by extension, what’s going on in corporations in India — a world-renowned centre of entrenched misogyny to which foreign corporations hesitate to send their women employees?

Unlike Indian corporations, USA
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