'Sex worker', not 'Prostitute': SC issues handbook to help the legal community avoid gender stereotypes

Supreme Court launches handbook with a glossary of gender unjust terms and suggests alternative words and phrases which may be used. Words like eve-teasing, prostitute, and housewife may soon be out of the legal lexicon and will be replaced by terms like street sexual harassment, sex worker and homemaker. Watch!
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