One of several Foxconn manufacturing facilities in India.
Following reports of married women being specifically excluded from jobs at Foxconn’s India iPhone facilities, the company’s chairman has said that the company does have married women as employees — but didn’t specifically dispute accusations over its hiring practices.
Foxconn chair Young Liu, visiting a Foxconn factory in Chennai, emphasized that “Foxconn hires regardless of gender, but women make up a big part of our workforce here.” The remark did not specifically address the alleged discrimination against married women.
The Chennai plant employs some 41,281 workers, of whom 33,360 were women. However, the number of married women working there numbered just 2,750, or 8.2 percent.
Foxconn has acknowledged some past discrimination in hiring practices back in 2022, but said it has worked since then to address the issues. Responding to the current allegations, the company says it “vigorously denies” the new report.
