In Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, the prospect of jobs at FoxConn, an iPhone manufacturer, is attracting many women seeking better wages. With women making up 70% of the workforce at the local plant, the opportunity to earn $170 monthly, significantly higher than previous earnings, represents a life-changing transition. Notably, Tamil Nadu hosts a large portion of India's female factory workers. Amid U.S.-China tensions, India aims to attract more manufacturing investment, betting on its ability to provide labor-intensive jobs under Prime Minister Modi's guidance.
Getting more women into poverty-lifting work is a key reason why India, and Tamil Nadu in particular, seeks to attract more labor-intensive manufacturing.
I am unambiguously in favor of manufacturing. Because you get many, many more women getting jobs.
Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi’s big bet is that as more and more companies are seeking to exit China, India is poised to play in a very big way.
Such wages are life-changing for many Indian women, and for that, says former Indian government economic adviser Arvind Subramanian.
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