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🗓️ 13 October 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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People have been participating in mass rallies in India seeking justice for a young medical trainee who was raped and murdered in a hospital.
It’s put a spotlight once again on women’s safety at work - particularly for those women doing night shifts.
There are laws to protect women from sexual harassment in the workplace, but campaigners say it can be slow to get justice.
So what more can be done to improve women's safety and encourage female participation in the workforce? We talk to some night shift workers about their experiences.
(Picture: Activists and medical professionals shout slogans during a protest march to condemn the rape and murder of a doctor. Credit: Getty Images)
Presented and produced by Devina Gupta
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Business Daily. |
0:03.3 | Namaste. I'm Devina Gupta and on the show today we head to India. |
0:10.8 | Since August there have been a number of protests like this one in the state of West Bengal. |
0:16.7 | People have been participating in mass rallies seeking justice for a young medical trainee |
0:21.9 | who was raped and murdered in a state-run hospital. |
0:26.7 | She had just completed her 36-hour shift, |
0:30.0 | and due to a lack of a designated resting place, |
0:33.3 | she went to sleep in a seminar hall. |
0:36.0 | The next day, she was found dead. |
0:39.2 | As the investigation continues in this case, |
0:42.0 | it has once again put a spotlight on women's safety at workplaces, |
0:46.8 | especially if they're working late shifts. |
0:49.6 | And so for this episode, we hear about some of those challenges. |
0:53.5 | When I started doing my night shifts this month, so it was really, really scary for me. |
0:58.3 | My parents used to call me, like, you know, every hour. |
1:01.1 | You don't want a Mercedes to drop you back home. |
1:03.4 | You're just asking for a drop back home. |
1:06.0 | And how companies are trying to do better. |
1:08.8 | We have women only schools. |
1:10.4 | We have buses, transportation, which are ladies special. |
1:13.5 | So we became a ladies' special factory. |
1:16.3 | So on this edition of Business Daily, |
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