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Apple supplier Foxconn rejects married women from India iPhone jobs

  • The Foxconn unit assembling iPhones in India has discriminatory hiring practices against married women, citing reasons related to family planning and post-marriage issues.
  • Numerous married women faced discrimination in job applications, one stating, "We didn't get the jobs as we both are married."
  • Some applicants had to conceal their marital status and remove jewelry as indicators, highlighting the extent of discrimination faced by married women in job interviews.
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News18 IndiaNews18 India

Apple Supplier Foxconn's Hiring Practices Exclude Married Indian Women At Tamil Nadu Plant: Report

Foxconn discriminates against married women by rejecting their job applications, because of their "greater family responsibilities compared to unmarried counterparts" as the reason.

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The HinduThe Hindu

Apple supplier Foxconn said to reject married women from India iPhone jobs

Women have babies after marriage, risk factors increase when you hire married women, a former human-resources executive at Foxconn India said

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ReutersReuters

Apple supplier Foxconn rejects married women from India iPhone jobs

Foxconn, the tech manufacturer that builds devices for Apple, has routinely excluded married women from iPhone assembly jobs at its plant in southern India.

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Foxconn Doesn't Hire Married Women At Chennai Plant? Centre Seeks Report

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government on Wednesday said it has asked the Tamil Nadu government to submit a "detailed report" after a Reuters story revealed that Apple supplier Foxconn rejected married women from iPhone assembly jobs in the country. In a statement calling for the probe, the Ministry of Labour and Employment cited the Equal Remuneration Act of 1976, saying the law "clearly stipulates that no discrimination (is) to be made whil…

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Hindustan TimesHindustan Times

Foxconn didn't hire married women at Tamil Nadu iPhone plant, centre seeks report

The labour and employment ministry has requested a detailed report from the Tamil Nadu labour department when Reuters reported Foxconn not hiring married women.

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New York PostNew York Post

Apple supplier Foxconn rejects married Indian women from jobs over ‘culture issues’ and because they ‘have babies after marriage’

“We didn’t get the jobs as we both are married,” Parvathi later said in an interview at her village shanty. “Even the auto-rickshaw driver who took us from the bus stand to the Foxconn facility told us they wouldn't take married women,” she added. “We thought we would still give it a shot.”

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