Foxconn wants women workers to take up lead in design, tech space: Chairman

iPhone contract manufacturer Foxconn wants women employees in India to take up lead positions in design and other technology-related positions, a top company official has said.

Foxconn has 48,000 employees across India and 25 per cent of its new hires are married women.

"We see not only the assembly work for women but also some design, technology-related positions. Lot of our current employees are highly educated. We would like to give them more opportunity to advance their position, not just limited to assembly work," Foxconn Chairman Young Liu told PTI.

The Foxconn factory has about 70 per cent women and 30 per cent men.

The company recently inaugurated a women-only residential complex built by the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (SIPCOT) in Sriperumbudur near Chennai that can house over 18,000 women employees working with Foxconn.

Liu had then said there is an upward trend in all types of hiring by the Taiwanese electronics manufacturing major in India and