{"id":998380,"date":"2026-03-16T07:52:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998380"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:25:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:55:46","slug":"women-power-indias-iphone-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/16\/women-power-indias-iphone-manufacturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Women power India\u2019s iPhone manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quiet shift on India\u2019s factory floors is rewriting the country\u2019s manufacturing story. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>Latest employment figures submitted to the government by Apple\u2019s contract manufacturers \u2014 Foxconn and Tata Electronics \u2014 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quiet shift on India\u2019s factory floors is rewriting the country\u2019s 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\u2019s contract manufacturers \u2014 Foxconn and Tata Electronics \u2014 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}