The #MeToo movement has created a wave on social media as countless women have come forward to narrate ordeals faced at workplace.As the movement is gaining momentum, people have identified with the campaign as being gender-neutral. Both men and women can and do suffer harassment at the hands of employers. However, one aspect that still needs to be highlighted is that #MeToo is not restricted to the urban realm or the upper class.
Rural areas and domestic workers more often than not fall prey to sexual harassment at places where they perform petty jobs for a living. Women working as housemaids recount horrific details where they were the object of obscene gazes.
A domestic worker, Nisha (name changed) still remembers the discomfort of the gaze of her employer’s ageing father as she went about doing household chores.
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