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Mahima Vasishth on the Role of Media in Judicial Outcomes of Sexual Harassment Cases

Ideas of India

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Shruti Rajigopalan speaks with Mahima Vashisht, a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of California, Irvine. She talks about her job market paper titled Local Media Reports About Sexual Crimes and Judicial Outcomes in India. We talked about sexual harassment and gender equality, the effect of media coverage on sexual harassment cases and their judicial outcome. Whether the gender of local politicians affects case outcomes and much more.

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