Foxconn targets women for leadership positions in India’s tech sector

iPhone-maker, Foxconn is claiming to be focusing on promoting women employees in India to leadership positions, especially in design and technology roles. The development comes in the wake of major claims against the company's hiring policy surfaced in some of its Indian facilities.

The company's chairman, Young Liu, emphasised the importance of offering more opportunities to women, beyond traditional assembly jobs.

Liu highlighted that many of Foxconn's employees in India are highly educated and that the company is keen to help them advance into more challenging and rewarding roles.

"We see not only the assembly work for women but also some design, technology-related positions," Liu said. He added that Foxconn wants to give its female employees "more opportunity to advance their position."

In India, Foxconn employs around 48,000 people, with women making up 70 per cent of this workforce. A significant number of these women are new hires, while 25 per cent of them are married. To support this workforce, the company recently opened a women-only residential complex near Chennai, which can house over 18,000 employees.

As part of its expansion plans in India, Foxconn is setting up its second-largest mobile manufacturing plant outside China in Karnataka, with an investment of Rs 25,000 crore. This new plant is expected to create 40,000 jobs.