Late in August 1939, there took place a strike in a small iron foundry in Jamshedpur, the premiere steel city of colonial India.

The relationship between gender diversity and firm performance has been the subject of research inquiry for over three decades now.

Of all the forms that violence against women can assume, sexual harassment is the most ubiquitous and insidious; all the more so because it is deemed 'normal' behaviour and not an assault on the female entity.