Supreme Court orders IOC to pay compensation for gender-based job denial

…qualified and met all the requirements, she was not among the 43 candidates selected. She was later told that she had been denied employment because she was a woman. IOC, in its response, told the top court, “ As the nature of the job and atmosphere and odd working hours in the company of the males was such that petitioner being lady was not considered fit for the job. ” SC rejects Indian Oil's rationale The bench rejected the rationale, observing: “Day in and day out, when men are not at home, it is the women who lift gas cylinders in the house and change it. And you denied her…