Foxconn chief defends hiring practices after report married women rejected in India

Foxconn’s chairman on Saturday defended its hiring practices after New Delhi ordered investigations following a Reuters report that the Apple supplier rejects married women from iPhone assembly jobs.

“Foxconn hires regardless of gender, but women make up a big part of our workforce here,” Young Liu said during the opening ceremony for a hostel complex for its workers near Chennai in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

“I emphasise married women greatly contribute to the efforts of what we’re doing here,” he added, making his first comments since the Reuters investigation.