CII-IWN Pune Chapter – Gender Diversity and Prevention of Sexual Harassment (PoSH) at Workplace

21/08/2019

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About

CII-IWN Pune had organised a Training Program on “Gender Diversity and Prevention of Sexual Harassment (PoSH) at Workplace”.

The objective of the workshop was to understand “The Shift of Awareness to Action”.

The training program helped the participants to:

Understand the gender biases, gender stereotypes and gender discrimination with further reference to PoSH Act.
Changing Gender Biases in Workplace and why do we need Gender Diversity?
Equipped the participants with knowledge of how to handle a complaint through fair, sensitive investigations and grievance handling
How we look people with biases?
How can we teach our next generation to change their thought process towards gender awareness?
To be more conscious today than yesterday and open our-self to gender biases
Changing mindsets of society and self
To understand the procedural aspects of PoSH Act
How to create gender neutral workplace?

Agenda

MANAGING WORKPLACE DIVERSITY

 Introduction to the concept of Biases and Particularly Gender Bias
 Discussion on Male Female Attributes, Gender and Sex
 Gender stereotypes; Gender Bias; Gender Discrimination
 Men and Women at workplaces – How diverse styles leads to better and more balanced organisations – how even conventional understanding of male and female attributes contributes greatly to the organization
 Women in Leadership

SEXUAL HARRASMENT PREVENTION TRAINING (Acting & Drama based Training)

 Prevention of Sexual Harassment – Mindset and behavioral issues (Act by Dance
drama Team Sutradhar)
 Detailed discussion on important concepts under the law
 Compliance requirements under the law
 Skill development for HR and IC Members to handle situations and cases of Sexual Harassment at workplace
 Concluding Activity demonstrating the understanding of the POSH law

Speakers

Ms Rupal Sancheti, Chairperson, IWN Pune Chapter & Director, Sancheti Hospital, Adv Divya Chavan Jachak, Co-Chairperson, IWN Pune Chapter Advocate & Co-Founder, GenderSense and Team GenderSense, with acts by dance-drama Team Sutradhar addressed the delegates about managing Workplace Diversity with concerns of PoSH at workplace.