• Ms. Sonia Balkrishna Shirodkar
• Mr. Harshad Gurudas Bandodkar

The unorganized sectors, a considerable and indispensable part of the global economy, persist to be a place where workforce, particularly women, experience total gender abuse, including sexual persecution. This segment, which includes workers from different areas like domestic, construction, street selling, agriculture, and other informal occupation, affects women excessively by the acts of sexual exploitations in workplaces that are every so often unnoticed and unregulated. These factors, together with the insecure nature of employment in this field, leave workers particularly prone to exploitation and abuse. Gender-based violence and harassment are normalized by societal formation and intensely embedded patriarchal stance, mainly affects the marginalized and rural sector. The application of set of laws is weak in this area due to the impermanent, casual, and fragmented nature of the work culture as well as the nonexistence of formal employer-employee relations. Workers' socioeconomic susceptibility is aggravated further by inefficacy of the legal safeguards reaching the marginalized sector, thus broadening the gap between legislative protections and their execution. In the recent years the gig economy has also seen steep growth, due to flexible work schedule; but numerous gig workers also find themselves in similarly unsafe work setting of the unorganized sector. A specialized approach is desirable to tackle the problems of gender disparity and sexual aggravation in the unorganised economy. While giving casual workers legal privileges is essential, addressing the universal problems to reach out its ground level execution is just as crucial. Decisive components of this consist of legal acquaintance, assistance for better admittance to grievance measures, and persuading a movement in culture towards accountability. Further, all-encompassing advances are necessary, one that integrates community-based development, awareness drives, and locally relevant solutions that permit workers to emphasize their rights and take up step against harassment, in addition to stricter implementation of laws.

Unorganized sector, sexual harassment, sexual offences, marginalized community, Informal employment

"UNRAVELING LEGAL PARADIGMS FOR ADDRESSING SEXUAL OFFENSES IN THE UNORGANIZED SECTOR", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 3, page no.383-399, March-2025, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRGT06031.pdf

"UNRAVELING LEGAL PARADIGMS FOR ADDRESSING SEXUAL OFFENSES IN THE UNORGANIZED SECTOR", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 3, page no. pp383-399, March-2025, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRGT06031.pdf