Electronics Sector Creating Jobs for Women in India: Minister

By: WE staff | Tuesday, 23 December 2025

• The electronics industry is providing blue-collar jobs for women on a large scale
• Foxconn employs around 30,000 people in the newly opened iPhone manufacturing facility
• Almost 80% of these workers are women

India’s electronics industry is providing blue-collar jobs at a massive scale to women, according to Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw.

He cited a news story that Taiwan contract manufacturer Foxconn has employed close to 30,000 workers in its newly opened iPhone manufacturing plant in Bengaluru in just eight to nine months, where 80 percent of the staff are women.

Making a comment on the micro blogging website X, Ashwini said that it would be hard to imagine a women-supervised large manufacturing unit a decade ago and that the electronics industry remains one of the biggest contributors in creating qualified blue-collar jobs.

For its new iPhone factory at Devanahalli, the company, Foxconn, has hired a large number of women in the age group of 19–24, who have largely stepped into the job market for the first time.

The prototype production of iPhones started in April-May with the iPhone 16 model, and now they are working on the iPhone 17 Pro Max. Over 80 percent of the products will be exported.

Foxconn is pledging an investment of around ₹20,000 crore in the Devanahalli project. The facility, spread over about 250,000 square feet of production space, is expected to be the Taiwan-based company’s largest manufacturing unit in India in terms of output as well as employment.

It is also expected to be bigger than Foxconn’s existing iPhone plant in Tamil Nadu, where about 41,000 workers are employed.

In October this year, Foxconn announced a further ₹15,000 crore investment in Tamil Nadu, which is likely to be generating around 14,000 high-value jobs.

The company is currently present in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Telangana, and its new investments would mean an expansion of its footprint in the country by several times.