Woman Between Islam and Western Society
1. A Survey
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public complaints. And when complaints are
made, he can use every defence that this grey
area of social attitudes and innuendoes
provides. When it is so hard for a rape victim
to prove she has been violated, one can
imagine how much harder it is for a victim of
the less dramatic forms of violence to prove
her case.
In such instances, if the offenders are their
supervisors, women who resist or complain
find themselves burdened with an increased
workload,
scathing
work
evaluation,
unwarranted reprimands and sheer hostility.
So many quit their jobs rather than go to
court. When neither alternative seems
feasible, they give in, quietly.
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This is the condition of the American female
worker, in spite of laws having been passed
assigning equal status to both sexes. There are even
laws prohibiting harassment of women workers by
men, but this has not prevented women being
victimized by unprincipled male colleagues and
superiors. Their helplessness stems from the fact
