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Following the 2017 debacle of Hollywood moghul Harvey Weinstein, social media hash tag movement #MeToo saw women across the world share their stories of sexual harassment at workplaces and beyond. The result — global CEOs, celebrities and politicians were called out on social media platforms for their behaviour, and companies could no longer ignore the accusations. Some of the biggest names in global businesses, including Uber’s former CEO Travis Kalanick, former Google Senior Vice President and Android Creator Andrew Rubin, former Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, former McDonald CEO Steve Easterbrook, were fired due to allegations of sexual misconduct. In India, a past allegation of sexual harassment surfaced against Flipkart Co-founder Binny Bansal. Though Bansal denied any wrong doing, Walmart-owned Flipkart asked him to leave on the basis on ‘personal misconduct’ in November 2018.

In 2013, India enacted the first legislation — Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013