Women's cell

HELPLINE NO.: 7827170170

Helpline Website: https://www.ncwwomenhelpline.in/

The Women Cell is constituted to help maintain a harmonious atmosphere at the Institute, to enable women to pursue their work with dignity and reassurance. The Cell has been working to raise awareness on gender equality issues.

This Cell functions as the "Complaints Committee" as required by the "Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2013".

Institute is committed to maintaining a professional learning and working environment for its students, employees and guests. One of the Women cells’ mandate is to prevent gender discrimination and inappropriate sexual conduct. This is best achieved through promoting gender sensitivity and justice amongst all IPR employees.

Any unwelcome act or behaviour, namely:

Physical contact and advances

A demand or request for sexual favours

Making sexually coloured remarks

Showing or displaying  of  pornography material

Any other unwelcome physical, verbal or non-verbal conduct of sexual nature

Implied or explicit promise of preferential treatment in employment

Implied or explicit threat of detrimental treatment

Implied or explicit threat about her present or future employment status

Interference with her work or creating offensive or hostile work environment

Humiliating treatment likely to affect her health or safety

Pressure for dates

Pressure for discussing/meeting at some particular place and timings that makes an individual feel uncomfortable

Making offensive remarks about looks, clothing, body parts

Touching or staring in a way that may make an individual feel uncomfortable

Telling sexual jokes, hanging sexual posters

Using racially derogatory words, phrases, epithets

Demonstrations of a racial or ethnic nature such as the use of gestures, pictures or drawing which would offend a particular racial or ethnic group

Comments about an individual’s skin color or other racial/ethnic characteristics

Negative comments about an employee’s religious beliefs

Negative  stereotypes regarding an employee’s birthplace or ancestry

Negative comments on an employee’s age when referring to employees above the age of 40

Derogatory or intimidating references to an employee’s mental or physical impairment

The female employee can make a complaint, in writing, to the local committee within a period of 3 months from the date of the incident.

The complainant should clearly write down her identity, i.e, name, group, division, and office premises, to ensure fast and fruitful results and to solve the problems in a positive way.  The committee is giving complete assurance to the employees that these details will be kept strictly confidential and will not be discussed outside, by any of the members of the committee. The committee also ensures to take action as per Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013.

Avoid touching any person or staring at a person, unnecessarily

Do not make sexist remarks or jokes that demean or humiliate any gender or category of people.

Do not take pictures, videos or oral recordings of anyone without their freely given consent.

Any written, multimedia, pictures, videos or oral recordings of a private sexual nature cannot be shared through e-mail, regular post, on social media (whatsapp/facebook/Instagram/snapchat, etc.) or other websites.

Do not send mixed signals – be firm and committed in your decision regarding any uncomfortable/unwanted action.

Do not send suggestive Whatsapp / SMS messages

Show and treat everyone in the Institute with respect.

Any individual can ask that the door of an office be left open during any interaction.

Any individual can request that meetings take place only during standard working hours and not in isolated areas.

Any individual can request that meetings and study sessions take place in well-lit public spaces rather than in rooms with limited access from the outside or in rooms that are private to one individual.