Women power India’s iPhone manufacturing
A quiet shift on India’s factory floors is rewriting the country’s manufacturing story.
Nearly 100,000 young women are now assembling iPhones in India for global markets, a scale of employment that industry executives say marks one of the largest private-sector hiring and skilling exercises of women workers in the country.
Latest employment figures submitted to the government by Apple’s contract manufacturers — Foxconn and Tata Electronics — show that the five iPhone factories operating in the country employ as many as 140,000 workers during peak production cycles. About 70% of them, close to 100,000 employees, are women largely in the 19-24 age group.
