Shavon Pulley/Jan 31/9:40/Gender Issues
This article deals with the women in India that works night shifts and are at risk for sexual harassment. In one case, a driver for a company raped and killed one of the female employees. In this specific area, women are not allowed to work the night shifts. Special provisions are made for information technology and similar companies that must protect the women with adequate transportation and security. The H.P leader, is currently being tried for his drivers actions toward one of the women that resulted into death.
Foreign companies, either directly or through a third party, employ hundreds of thousands of people in India as customer service representatives, accountants, information technology specialists, developers and researchers. Nearly half of these employees are women, and many work overnight shifts to be on the same time zone as their foreign clients. Outsourcing is very popular in these countries as employment, but is the job worth their life? Many are changing the rules and regulation for the drivers and the women that ride with these drivers. Stricter screening process are being applied and women are not allowed to ride at night by themselves.
I found this article to be interesting, because of the current outsourcing topic we are studying in class. These women are trying to provide a living for themselves and families, but are putting themselves at risk for sexual assault that could result to death as one incident did. The companies that they are outsourcing for are not realizing the danger that the women face to provide service for their company. These companies are only worried about the savings and benefits that they will receive. With the jobs being such a high risk, many companies should provide current rules and regulations of the drivers and a safer environment for the female workers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/business/worldbusiness/31cnd-rupee.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=women&st=nyt&oref=slogin
1 comment:
I found this article to be quite interesting. It is horrible that these women aren't taken care of better than that. They have to take this risk in order to supply for the family and, as you stated, caused at least one woman her life. I agree with you that there should be better rules and regulations put into place to help these women in the workplace. It is bad enough they have to work these late shifts just to supply for a family, and then throw in the dangers of sexual assault and it just doesn't seem like it would be worth it from a Western perspective.
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