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    How Supreme Court’s gender-just handbook could further enable India Inc to embrace inclusive language

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    The 30-page handbook by the Supreme Court has a “glossary of gender-unjust terms and suggests alternative words or phrases which may be used while drafting pleadings as well as orders and judgments”. It notes that harmful gender stereotypes perpetuate discrimination and exclusion.

    Jyoti Dadlani, a Mumbai-based psychologist who trains internal committees—which are set up under the Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) Act—in mid-size and large corporations, made some last-minute changes to a presentation for a financial consulting company early this week. She spoke about Stereotypes vs Reality. Here’s a stereotype, she said: “Women who say ‘no’ to sexual advances are shy and they actually mean ‘yes’.” The reality, she
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