Skeletons from the cupboard
It may be just a coincident . I was reading Giant Of The Senate, a book written by Al Franken, a Democrats Senator. I was just getting interested in the story of his rise from Saturday Night Live to the coveted seat of Senator in the US Congress in 2012. And then falls the bomb. He has decided to resign. Reason - sexual harassment reported by one woman followed by some dozen women over a period of some 20 odd years. Simply pathetic.
Now it so happens that it was not only Trump. There are many many more. The skeletons are tumbling down. Back in India there was this fellow called Tarun Tejpal Head of Tehlaka and R K Pachauri Directional General of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI ). Both of them, highly respected personalities in their own way, had to face the humiliation.
Sexual harassment at work place is not new. What is new is that more and more women are coming forward to report them. Some cases are as old as fifty years. This is new found freedom or there is something behind the stories. The typical question asked is why now? The simple answer would be why not?
But is it really so simple? The bigger question is who would bell the cat? In most cases the victim does not want to report because of inherent humiliation or fear. It should be the other way round. It is the a accused who should feel humiliated and afraid of. But it happens the other way. The equation is not right.
While there is every possibility that some one may be playing the victim card and thus trying to take revenge or may be some compensation but such cases would be very few. In all probability a woman will not do it because she has to protect her identity, family and social standing. But then the possibility can not be ruled out.
The courts have a difficult job to settle such cases unless the victim can produce concrete evidence, which is very difficult if the case is old.
It may be just a coincident . I was reading Giant Of The Senate, a book written by Al Franken, a Democrats Senator. I was just getting interested in the story of his rise from Saturday Night Live to the coveted seat of Senator in the US Congress in 2012. And then falls the bomb. He has decided to resign. Reason - sexual harassment reported by one woman followed by some dozen women over a period of some 20 odd years. Simply pathetic.
Now it so happens that it was not only Trump. There are many many more. The skeletons are tumbling down. Back in India there was this fellow called Tarun Tejpal Head of Tehlaka and R K Pachauri Directional General of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI ). Both of them, highly respected personalities in their own way, had to face the humiliation.
Sexual harassment at work place is not new. What is new is that more and more women are coming forward to report them. Some cases are as old as fifty years. This is new found freedom or there is something behind the stories. The typical question asked is why now? The simple answer would be why not?
But is it really so simple? The bigger question is who would bell the cat? In most cases the victim does not want to report because of inherent humiliation or fear. It should be the other way round. It is the a accused who should feel humiliated and afraid of. But it happens the other way. The equation is not right.
While there is every possibility that some one may be playing the victim card and thus trying to take revenge or may be some compensation but such cases would be very few. In all probability a woman will not do it because she has to protect her identity, family and social standing. But then the possibility can not be ruled out.
The courts have a difficult job to settle such cases unless the victim can produce concrete evidence, which is very difficult if the case is old.
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