Sexual Harassment in the Information Technology Sector: A Study of Bengaluru, India

Abstract

Information Technology sector is thriving in India. It is placing India on the global plane. Bengaluru is a city of southern part of India. It is also termed as the “silicon valley” of India. The study has been conducted in the Information Technology sector in Bengaluru, India; which was earlier called Bangalore. Out of the 100 respondents who were studied, 50 were women. Most of them who were sexually harassed were younger and unmarried ones. The general studies conducted at different times and by different authorities have found the existence of sexual harassment in the Information Technology sector. In this paper, we are focusing on the study of presence of sexual harassment in workplace in the Information Technology sector. Harassment aggravates discrimination within the workplace. The paper has gone into several theoretical frameworks, through which sexual harassment of women in the Information Technology sector has been studied.