Empowering women sanitation workers: a training guide to workplace rights and protection
This guide orients and sensitises women sanitation workers on gender, patriarchy, workplace violence, and the PoSH Act, including complaint and redressal processes. It highlights the rights of working women, aiming to create safer workplaces, reduce gender-based harassment, and improve well-being, productivity, and mutual gains for both workers and ULBs.
What you’ll learn from this training module
- The challenges and rights of women sanitation workers that are shaped by gender, caste and informality
- Participatory guidance on constitutional protections, PoSH Act provisions and grievance redress mechanisms
- Case-based learning to recognise discrimination, assert rights and seek redress
- Tools for fostering dignity, safety and systemic change within urban sanitation workforces
