What is the safe space to work survey?
- Evaluate organizations in India, on the degree of safety & inclusiveness they provide their employees, especially female employees.
- The survey would cover organizations from different sectors and geographies across the country, varying in strength and domains.
- Sexual Harassment, especially of women at the workplace, has been a major concern for organizations across the country.
- While there has been legislation enacted to tackle this issue, such as The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition, and Redressal) Act, 2013, change has been slow.
- According to the GoI, there has been a 54%increase in the number of Sexual Harassment cases reported between 2014 and 2017 – around 2 cases reported every day in the country.