Women should be barred from working at night : Do you agree?

Very well said, i am really supportive of your thought process..great keep it up man keep it up

There are a large number of companies that are reportedly forcing ladies into unpleasant activities. The victims are usually the candidates who come from poor condition, who wittingly or otherwise fall prey to this. Night shift is just ploy for this activities. Many of these ladies are no position to defend themselves. Again I agree one has to look at the working environment before passing judgment on the whole lot of companies having ladies as night shifts. Many of them are extremely professional and take care of their night staff. Hence night shifts need not be barred but it should not be mandatory as Vinoy earlier proposed. It should be left for the individual to check her environment before opting for night jobs. Any organization enforcing mandatory night shifts for women should be pulled up.

Please do not misunderstand the stand of barring night shift as questioning the morality of concerned person. Frankly to casting a blanket label on any group is utter madness. I definitely do not wish to hold on to such blanketing. I am sure most of my colleagues on this side of the debate did not mean the same when they chose to debate the issue.

It is just a practical, short term step needed to stem the number of aharassement cases. This does not tantamount to labeling any person immoral. Please be clear about it. Frankly our society is still in a churning stage regarding the topic and it will take a while for the process to gain credible stage. Hence the stop-gap arrangement.

Yea, if women are not provided the security they deserve. In a society where the Indian womenfolk have turned ultra modern raising eyebrows and what not amongst the Indian menfolk, letting them work at nights may instigate violence and harassment.

However, the question of equal employment opportunity to women does not arise here at all as long as they are given equal opportunity to get to a rank similar to the Indian menfolk. We are not barring them from work but majorly barring them from working during nights given the present rising trends in sexual harassment and loopholes in the security systems.

I am sorry if I have offended anybody with my stand on the debate and my due apologies for the same. It is not my desire to disenfranchise the womenfolk. In fact, I recognize the success story of the last 2 decades have been to a large extent due to empowerment of the fairer sex.

I was just putting forward a practical way to deal with the atrocities committed on females over the last 2/3 years in the metros. Renashmi, it is wonderful to see youngsters like you confident enough to take on any acts of impropriety. And I will retract my stand on women barring at night shift.

But, let me make it clear that night shifts should not be mandatory for ladies and as Murthy Sir mentioned the company should be liable to provide traffic and security for those ladies who decide to work at night. I am confident that the working women of our generation is empowered to take the call depending on the profile of the company and comfort zone they can enjoy with the task on hand.

Shameena I appreciate your insight but I'll refrain to correct that seemingly irresponsible but hard true fact which was brought to focus. This is happening and I guess you will have the psychological parity with the concept that when a person is grounded too below he takes a blast and this is the day when I took the blast and I will not bother to take responsibility of the consequences of that. I am not selected by a women recruiter in a company because of a bullshit alibi that I have no knowledge of English where her knowledge was kind of childish. I won't spare these arrogant, stupid, ill-minded and dumb women whatever.

I agree with you sir,Still India is not safe enough to leave women & young girls to work at night.